LIFE NEWS/ Micaiah Bilger-
California parents won a settlement in a “wrongful birth” lawsuit this month after they accused doctors of failing to provide information that would have led them to abort their daughter with Down syndrome.
NBC Los Angeles reports the couple wanted $80 million in damages for their daughter’s so-called wrongful birth. The terms of the settlement, filed earlier this month with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Victor Chavez, are not known.
The Southland parents, who are not named in the report, claimed the doctors failed in their duty to recognize their daughter’s genetic disability. Their 2015 lawsuit named Axminster Medical Group Inc., Westchester Advanced Imaging Medical Group Inc. and Drs. Glenn P. Wedeen, Christopher Meilleur and Mia J. Sanders Madati as parties, according to the report. Continue reading…
