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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. - Mother Theresa

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We do what we must because we can,for the good of all of us....except the ones that are dead.

From that article:

But wrongful birth suits are not accepted everywhere. Right now, only twenty eight states recognize them, and nine states prohibit them outright. And most of these cases are settled out of court.

“When your client is offered a certain amount of money that's going to change their life, what more is it that you think you can do for your client,” says Harz.

Wrongful birth suits often settle out of court for less money than a jury might award because insurance companies don't want a child like Jade brought before a jury. Plus, sonograms don't always make the most convincing evidence at trial.

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“Wrongful birth suits give children and adults with disabilities the message that our very existence was a tragic mistake,” says Saxton at a disability conference.

“The message is that these children’s' lives are so miserable and such a burden to the family that the only compensation would be millions of dollars. And this is such a distortion, of what these children’s' lives are like.”

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We do what we must because we can,for the good of all of us....except the ones that are dead.

Yeah money seems to motivate a lot of people. They will more than likely win because they are partially in the right. The lab committed an error and admits to it. That part I'm ok with. The part about wrongful birth though.. that just irritates me. How's that poor kid going to feel when he can understand all of this?

I guess it would depend on the severity of the illness or defect that my genes had. I'd need to know the worst case sceneario and some other fun stuff before I could decide. I couldn't get pregnant and THEN decide if I wanted to keep it or not.

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. - Mother Theresa

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"Yes like I said it all boils down to morals. What you think is right doesn't make a person wrong because they think different " X-Black

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“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none”
Arthur Schopenhauer

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein

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"There is a bit of a battle between people who say, Hey, your tax cuts wrecked our war and people who say, Hey, your war wrecked our tax cuts,"
- David Frum, a former Bush speechwriter.

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We do what we must because we can,for the good of all of us....except the ones that are dead.

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"With every decision, think seven generations ahead of the consequences of your actions" Ute rule of life.
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”― Chief Seattle
“Those Who Have the Privilege to Know Have the Duty to Act”…Albert Einstein

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I don't know what your problem is but I bet its hard to pronounce.

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"With every decision, think seven generations ahead of the consequences of your actions" Ute rule of life.
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”― Chief Seattle
“Those Who Have the Privilege to Know Have the Duty to Act”…Albert Einstein