wrongful birth

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English

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Noun

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wrongful birth (countable and uncountable, plural wrongful births)

  1. A lawsuit filing, claiming that a doctor failed to advise the parents that a child might have the prospect of birth defects.

References

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  • wrongful birth, in Black's Law Dictionary, Bryan A. Gardner, ed., 8th Ed., 2004.