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What if the child is born normal, but then has a terrible accident or illness that renders him/her severely disabled. Can abortion be retroactive? Can the mother sue on the basis that the doctors should have been able to put him/her back together again, like Humpty Dumpty? When is it too late to trade the injured child in for a new one?

As a taxpayer, I have no problem with helping to pay the expenses of supporting a severely disabled person, especially if this person has no other means of support. We already do this in the form of social security payments for disabilities. America also has special funds to help pay for treatment and research for rare genetic disorders and other diseases. Orphan drug programs exist to produce rarely needed medications and hospitals regularly write off the expenses of caring for indigent patients.

I'd be very interested to know exactly what lifestyle these people will now enjoy and whether there are any stipulations that these funds revert to some charitable trust upon the man's death. We shouldn't treat disabilities like a lottery. It seems to me that the woman alone would not provide all the genetic clues needed to produce a healthy baby. Her husband or the biological father should have been half the equation. Sometimes two recessive genes can produce extraordinary defects which could not have been predicted in the first place. The lawsuit was hogwash.

Your reply caught my attention. I personally know of a couple (in their 40s) who have been married 20+ years and had "problems" conceiving...something wrong with his sperm and ???? Then, a miracle happens. She conceives. Doesn't really accept that she's PG until 5 months or so along. Continues her cocktails, beers, and cigarettes (all pretty much more than moderate) each and every day and night. No folic acid, by the way. After she's about halfway through pregnancy and discovers she's pregnant, she makes a doctor visit. Life goes on. She approaches delivery date. Their story is that the doctor has tickets to a Green Bay Packer game, so he induces labor on mom just a few days before scheduled delivery date. Baby is born, later, believed to have suffered a stroke.

Bottom line now is not parents' fault or their ability to accept what nature deals them. I belive that a true measure of what a person is worth is how they deal with adversity. They are poor parents, sloughing the poor boy off with the paternal grandparents at every step of the way, and disregarding therapists' advise about bonding/interacting with baby. Baby will always be baby as long as he lives, blind, and not too cognizant of what goes on around him.

What really ticks me off is that now the parents are sueing the doctors, anethesiologsists (sp?....), etc., etc. They have a beautiful custom-built log home in a pristine natural area given to them by his dad, then try to block others from developing the lovely pristine land. I think you may get the picture that they want to "lock the door behind them" once they got in.

Sorry I prattled on at length, but in case you haven't already guessed, these opportunists piss me off. I wish that instead, they would concentrate on the little life that God gave them and do their earthly best with him. Sigh.