What do you think? Do you think it is something that should be subject to a lawsuit?
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/nat...-1225894802548
TWO Victorian couples are suing doctors for failing to diagnose Down Syndrome in their unborn babies, denying them the chance to terminate the pregnancies.
The couples are claiming unspecified damages for economic loss, continuing costs of care of the children, and "psychiatric injury".
Both say they would have aborted their pregnancies had they been told their children would be born with Down Syndrome.
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Two couples suing doctors for failing to diagnose Downs Syndrome
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Is it ever as simple as "YES your baby has DS"? I don't know much about it beyond the ratios you are given, does an amniocentesis give a definite genetic answer?
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