Will this make it through the pre-screening panel in Massachusetts?
The state’s high court ruled in 1990 that parents can sue physicians for child-rearing expenses, but limited those claims to cases in which children require extraordinary expenses because of medical problems, medical malpractice lawyer Andrew C. Meyer Jr. said.Raper’s suit has no mentions of medical problems involving her now 2-year-old daughter.
As with all medical malpractice suits in Massachusetts, Raper’s complaint will have to be screened by a tribunal consisting of a Superior Court judge, a lawyer, and a doctor to determine whether it has merit to go to trial.
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I am surprised the pre-screening panel even gets this. This is pretty much a question of law as to whether the law even recognizes this type of claim. I thought the prescreening panel addressed only the medical issues.
Precedent has rejected “wrongful life” suits previously.
That would be an intersting twist, creating a “duty to kill”.
Why doesn’t she give the baby for adoption ?
oh great, now this will just deter docs from performing this service in the first place.
I have never considered abortionists to be doctors anyway–at least not in the same profession that I am.
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