Wrongful life has been used to try to recover expenses for a child born with severe defects that needs lifelong care. What really concerns me about this law is that it appears to say that physicians do not need to tell the parents about the possibilities of one of these problems if they think that it would lead to the parents wishing to abort the pregnancy. Where it becomes fuzzy is if the law is intended to protect the doctor from being sued if he does not mention one of these problems or is not firm enough with how serious a situation is or if it is meant to encourage doctors to not mention specific things in an effort to reduce elective abortions.
I do not think I would do it, but I I could totally understand why someone faced with a child with the kinds of severe defects that they are talking about (Edward's syndrome, microencephaly, etc.) would be concerned with the health risks of carrying a child to term.
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