Sentences with phrase «wrongful life»

Granted, life imprisonment, let alone wrongful life imprisonment, is no walk in the park.

The previous leading case in Canada on this subject of wrongful life was in Lacroix v. Dominique at the Manitoba Court of Appeal.

Other recent Ontario Court of Appeal cases have also addressed the issue of claims for wrongful life.

Justice Mason concludes by referring to the major Australian wrongful life case, Harriton v StephensSee the subsequent appeal., where the NSW Court of Appeal had a Jewish judge quoting St. Matthew and a Christian judge quoting JobSpigelman CJ, referring to Matthew 19:19), 721 [155].

In such a discriminatory setting, is it any wonder that a Belgian court has now approved the odious notion of a wrongful life.

The practice of Israeli children with birth defects suing for «wrongful life» is disturbing on two counts (29 October, p...

Either a person's existence is universally beneficial and desirable, as an anti-euthanasia law indicates, or there are circumstances in which it is harmful and undesirable, as the mere use of the phrase «wrongful life» indicates.

The practice of Israeli children with birth defects suing for «wrongful life» is disturbing on two counts (29 October, p 6).

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Wrongful birth is conceptually similar to a wrongful life action.

A wrongful life action means that the child is seeking damages for being born with a defect (instead of the parents seeking damages for being born).