Tuesday, November 15, 2005

"Wrongful Life" Down Under

This from Courttv News:

A blind and deaf Australian woman who claims she never should have been born is suing a doctor for a lifetime of suffering in the country's first "wrongful life" suit.

Alexia Harriton, 24, is seeking compensation from the doctor who misdiagnosed rubella in the first trimester of her mother's pregnancy, claiming Olga Harriton would have aborted her had she been aware of the potential birth defects arising from the illness.

Lawyers for the Sydney woman argued in Australia's highest court Thursday that Dr. Paul Stephens is liable for the costs arising from a lifetime of medical treatment that Harriton needs to survive.

Harriton's lawyers claim that Stephens had a duty to Olga Harriton and to her unborn daughter to inform her of the risk of the infection passing to her child. "Had the rubella been diagnosed, Olga [Harriton] would have exercised her lawful right to terminate the pregnancy," court documents state.

I would imagine the Ruth Bader Ginsberg faction of the Supreme Court is just salivating over the prospects of siting this case as "international precedent" for making eugenics American law. Please, please, please, God, help us to get Alito confirmed before the current SCOTUS gets their filthy liberal paws on this.
-MZ

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

The idea that the rightwing fails to see how this poor woman deserves compensation for being born with no chance at having any quality of life proves you lack all capacity for compassion.

If you had any decency you'd see that this is why we must not let the radical religious right take the Supreme Court.

Mad Zionist said...

Oh my God...I cannot believe there is a commentator who would be supportive of this disgusting lawsuit. Are you for real, or just posting here to piss people off?

I am at the end of my rope with you, Getsit. Tell me exactly how I should interperet your vulgar comments without assuming you are arguing in favor of eugenics. If you cross that line you're gone.

-MZ

Freedomnow said...

Does anyone have the contact info for Dr. Paul Stephens?

I think I want to sue him too. That woman is obnoxious...

Mad Zionist said...

Getsit, still waiting to hear your case...I suggest you make it soon.

-MZ

Anonymous said...

Why sue the doctor? If her quality of life is so intolerable and so burdensome to continue she should just end it.

instead of suing the docotr for damages she should be suing him to kill her. his seems to be what she really wnats, isnt it?. To be relieved of a life with no quality worrth living?

DR

Mad Zionist said...

Good point, DR...perhaps her quality of life has more to do with dollar signs than anything else. If that's the case, why not just euthenize the poor?

-MZ

Freedomnow said...

Please dont ban Getsit MZ

He makes the trolls look like complete idiots. All the satire in the world couldnt accomplish that...

nanc said...

whatever her condition, people in this frame of mind are of one mind and that is money talks and b.s. walks. there is no amount of money that will drag her from the dregs of her misery. money does not cause happiness - money accompanies happiness.

i think i'll sue my mother for having me first of six and later having to be responsible for each and every one of them because both my parents worked. yeah, i'm traumatized, messed up, emotionally wiped out...yeah...that's the ticket - i'll fake a breakdown! i believe i'll go do it right now. know any good attorneys guys? back after the breakdown!!!

nanc said...

p.s. i second freedomnow's plea - i attain some of my greatest sources of entertainment watching them do their slapstick. thanx.

nanc said...

i am reminded of what a full life helen keller had. ray charles. stevie wonder. tom sullivan. and the list goes on. one can allow their disability to rule them or they can rule over it.

wind's blowing harder that jimmah cawtah here tazz - you remember...

nanc said...

but kyle, your sense of humor and justice far outweigh any of these esthetics and talents. how do you know you're ugly if you're nearsighted - i bet you just look perty from far away! always remember, no, never forget beauty is only skin deep - ugly goes all the way to the bone.

Mad Zionist said...

Taz said: Mz, I don't think gets/shits will answer you. He's all bark and no bite.

You are absolutely right,Taz. However, it seems Getsit is providing many commentators with some comic relief, so I will let the troll live to spew another day.

-MZ

Anonymous said...

There is a well known Jewish story:
A woman who is deaf and ugly marries a blind, verbally abusive man. She does not hear his insults and he does not see her ugliness. Thus, their marriage is content. Then a doctor arrives who manages to cure all the physical handicaps.
Now the husband is able to see his wife and she is able to hear his insults. Their marriage quickly falls apart and they sue the doctor for breaking up their marriage. The court that hears the case rules that unless the man is willng to blind himself and the woman to make herself deaf, they have no claim that the doctor damaged them.

nanc said...

a most excellent story b.b. i wonder how on earth these two got together?

Anonymous said...

As many have remarked earlier, getsits' name is missing one letter ...

nanc said...

getsit being here is proof positive that the right is far more "tolerant" (for lack of a better word) than the left. go to one of their sites and say one p.i. thing and you're out of there, message erased, the end.

thank you madze, you are as fair as the left is unfair. no one can count that high!

Anonymous said...

Hmm this is one of those rare cases where I would (in hindsight) be in favor of abortion.