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Are Wrongful Life Actions Threatening the Value of Human Life?

Vera Lúcia Raposo1.   

Abstract

Most courts around the world have been refusing wrongful life actions. The main argument invoked is that the supposed compensable injury cannot be classified as such, since life is always a blessing no matter how hard and painful it is.In opposition to mainstream scholars and the dominant case law, this article sustains that life must be distinguished from living conditions, the former being the real injury at stake, since some living conditions are so intolerable that in themselves they justify a compensation within wrongful life actions.

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Keywords:  Human life; Injury; Right not to be born; Right to be born healthy; Wrongful life

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Year:  2017        PMID: 28634764     DOI: 10.1007/s11673-017-9792-y

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Bioeth Inq        ISSN: 1176-7529            Impact factor:   1.352


  9 in total

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Journal:  J Med Ethics       Date:  2002-04       Impact factor: 2.903

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Journal:  Law Philos       Date:  1987-08

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Authors:  Anne Morris; Severine Saintier
Journal:  Med Law Rev       Date:  2003       Impact factor: 1.267

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Authors:  Warwick J Neville; Buddhima Lokuge
Journal:  Med J Aust       Date:  2006-11-20       Impact factor: 7.738

6.  The logical case for "wrongful life".

Authors:  B Steinbock
Journal:  Hastings Cent Rep       Date:  1986-04       Impact factor: 2.683

7.  Negotiating responsibility: case studies of reproductive decision-making and prenatal genetic testing in families facing Huntington disease.

Authors:  Claudia Downing
Journal:  J Genet Couns       Date:  2005-06       Impact factor: 2.537

8.  New prenatal screening procedures raise spectre of more "wrongful-birth" claims.

Authors:  K Capen
Journal:  CMAJ       Date:  1995-03-01       Impact factor: 8.262

9.  Fetal alcohol and the right to be born healthy….

Authors:  Shiva M Singh; Benjamin I Laufer; Joachim Kapalanga
Journal:  Front Genet       Date:  2014-10-13       Impact factor: 4.599

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1.  Gene Editing, the Mystic Threat to Human Dignity.

Authors:  Vera Lúcia Raposo
Journal:  J Bioeth Inq       Date:  2019-03-18       Impact factor: 1.352

2.  A 450 Year Old Turkish Poem, Art as a Qualitative Investigation Tool, Buddhist Deathways, Karma and Eudaimonia in Death and Organ Donation: The Wonders of Truly Diverse Bioethical Inquiry!

Authors:  Michael A Ashby
Journal:  J Bioeth Inq       Date:  2017-08-16       Impact factor: 1.352

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