Comments on: Accidental Baby

By: KC

KC — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:26:20 +0000

Sounds like a Jodi Picoult novel ….
‘Handle with Care’ synopsis – When Charlotte and Sean O’Keefe’s daughter, Willow, is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, they are devastated – she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. As the family struggles to make ends meet to cover Willow’s medical expenses, Charlotte thinks she has found an answer. If she files a wrongful birth lawsuit against her ob/gyn for not telling her in advance that her child would be born severely disabled, the monetary payouts might ensure a lifetime of care for Willow. But it means that Charlotte has to get up in a court of law and say in public that she would have terminated the pregnancy if she’d known about the disability in advance.

Sadly, this is real life…

By: MacDoctor

MacDoctor — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:36:17 +0000

Harpoon

You missed the point. It is unfair that a child who is paralysed through an accident has more resources that a child who is paralysed as a birth defect or as an illness. The child is no less paralysed or in less need of those resources. The point being that medical disabilities are underfunded – hence this bizarre attempt to classify a medical problem as an accident.

By: Harpoon

Harpoon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:25:59 +0000

Mac: “I find the current system where a child disabled by an accident has access to far more resources than one disabled at birth to be wholly unfair.”

Errmmmm … Mac … the ‘A’ in ACC stands for ‘accident’ or misadventure. Not just general ‘illness’.

By: Max Rebo

Max Rebo — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:16:17 +0000

“Warning: may contain disabilities.”
It’s the hot coffee case all over again…

By: mawm

mawm — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:19:04 +0000

This is bizarre. They are claiming that they would have aborted their child after 20 weeks gestation if the diagnosis had not been missed! 2 things – second trimester abortions are not without substantial risk to the mother and there are many spina bifida people who live ‘normal’ lives.

If the child needs specialised medical care, in a public health system such as ours, this should be available through the health system. This case has the scent of greed all over it with the parents trying to enrich themselves through ACC. The same goes for all the ’sexual molestation’ claims.