Canadian court rulings based on radical ideology -- Court denies compensation to parents because a full term baby is not a human.
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A Canadian court has ruled that a full-term baby who died during childbirth was not a child, and therefore the parents were not due compensation for bereavement at her death.
The parents were awarded $60,000 damages for the negligence of their doctor, but were refused an additional $25m,000 for the loss of the baby girl, on the grounds that the law did not consider her a human being.
"The Supreme Court of Canada has determined that a fetus has no legal status until it is a child, born alive and viable," said the judge.
A lawyer for the organisation, REAL Women, criticised the court for adopting "radical feminist idealogy, which flies in the face of medical and scientific fact."
(From Alive! March 2001)
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Does anyone have further details about this case?
A Canadian court has ruled that a full-term baby who died during childbirth was not a child, and therefore the parents were not due compensation for bereavement at her death.
The parents were awarded $60,000 damages for the negligence of their doctor, but were refused an additional $25m,000 for the loss of the baby girl, on the grounds that the law did not consider her a human being.
"The Supreme Court of Canada has determined that a fetus has no legal status until it is a child, born alive and viable," said the judge.
A lawyer for the organisation, REAL Women, criticised the court for adopting "radical feminist idealogy, which flies in the face of medical and scientific fact."
(From Alive! March 2001)
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Does anyone have further details about this case?
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