[canuckmel]

I'd sue in a heartbeat if I were hellbent on not raising a child with SN and I went through a process like amnio and was assured my child did not have the condition being tested for.

Kids with SN have significant impacts on the parents ability to earn and cost serious money to raise. I cannot see the problem with wanting someone else to meet those costs after the parents did what they could to prevent the condition they were unwilling to deal with.

And I do not think it does not mean they do not love the child they are raising. In some ways you can see this as assuring the child's future financially as either it means there is enough money that the parent/s do not need to return to work while they are needed or there is enough money to take care of the child's future.

Childbirth and pregnancy are risky. Genetic conditions which can be tested for are less risky--if they were assured the baby did not have DS, then they had the right to sue IMO.

I was about to comment with basically this exact response.

[canuckmel]

At the same time it breaks my heart when parents start legal action over an existing child. I don't think it requires 2.9 million dollars extra to raise a SN child so it makes me feel (rightly or wrongly) that they are seeking compensation for having a child they don't want at all.

We are talking about America though, a country with a 'user pays' medical system where a condition such as cancer can send you bankrupt and force a family to sell their home and live on welfare.