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A couple has been granted extra time to sue a Gold Coast ultrasound clinic and doctor over their failure to diagnose their unborn daughter with Down syndrome.
The couple claims they would not have continued with the pregnancy if they had known, and have indicated they will seek damages for child-rearing costs of their daughter, who is now four years old.
The Supreme Court in Brisbane on Friday granted the couple an extension of time to launch their case against the medical professionals.
The court judgment reveals the couple visited the clinic in August 2014 for an ultrasound scan to determine whether the embryo had any chromosomal abnormalities.
https://www.news.com.au/national/queens ... 95744f2dee

Aren't the Lefties all for abortion? In my country, they claim they are.

The case will probably only have one lasting legacy:from now on all ultrasound clinics will make you sign a waiver (forbidding you to sue them if the kid comes out less perfect than they find, and how you hope).

Plenty of people are like that

Some people believe abortion is "killing" and wrong under all circumstances

Republicans, Baptists

Simpleminded

Black and white thinking

Children with down syndrome take more time, $$, and energy to raise than children without down syndrome

All things being equal

The parents are not necessarily ableist


Although they could be


A couple of months ago , a post was in wrong planet:. "should you have been aborted"

And the moderator locked the post

The parents are simply reflective of the 95% of parents who take prenatal tests to terminate their downs fetus.

What is interesting in this story is the illustration of what's going on in the head of a NT parent when they they realise they could have tested using amniocentesis and when finding take out their anger/frustration on the clinic.

It's a sign of the future when prental tests become more advanced...will parents have the same reaction to autism?? my guess is they will...

I think a partial or total cure is going to happen probably via ABA or gene editing after birth than pre natal. I understand autism is very complicated but the determination and ensuing money as well as the popularity of the anti vaxx movement shows the desperation for a cure is there. I think a lot of the autism acceptance is reluctant and based on the understanding a cure is not close at this time.

That it why it behooves the ND movement to change their elitist ”Aspie” image. Do I think the image is fair, not at all, but it is what it is. They have got to show that just because a child is severely autistic, that does not mean the person is doomed to be a lifelong burden to parents and who will be so miserable the humane thing to do is to make sure it does not happen.

It is possible that this is just an attempt to get money and that they wouldn’t have actually terminated the pregnancy.

I would’ve been perfectly okay if my son had had DS. Friends of my parents adopted three children with DS, so they were often my playmates when I was growing up. They touched the lives of everyone they came in contact with.

Even if people are too disabled to work, they can still contribute a lot to society.