Tudamorf
07-12-2006, 04:46 PM
Not because he fathered it, but because he failed to warn the mother of the risk of Downs syndrome so that she might consider abortion.
I wish <i>our</i> legal system were this sensible.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060712/ap_on_he_me/doctor_disabled_baby_1VIENNA, Austria - The Austrian Supreme Court has ordered a lower tribunal to consider whether a gynecologist accused of failing to give complete information about a high-risk pregnancy should pay child support after his patient gave birth to a disabled child.
Supreme Court official Ronald Rohrer said justices had ruled that if the Salzburg Provincial Court determined that the mother would have undergone an abortion had she known all the details, the doctor must financially support the girl — now 9 years old — possibly for life.
I wish <i>our</i> legal system were this sensible.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060712/ap_on_he_me/doctor_disabled_baby_1VIENNA, Austria - The Austrian Supreme Court has ordered a lower tribunal to consider whether a gynecologist accused of failing to give complete information about a high-risk pregnancy should pay child support after his patient gave birth to a disabled child.
Supreme Court official Ronald Rohrer said justices had ruled that if the Salzburg Provincial Court determined that the mother would have undergone an abortion had she known all the details, the doctor must financially support the girl — now 9 years old — possibly for life.