UK Parents Sue Hospital For “Wrongful Birth” of Disabled Son Born 14 Years Ago

A couple who are claiming they were deprived of their chance to abort their disabled son are suing the Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust for £1million in damages and compensation for the cost of caring for him.

The couple told the High Court in London that staff at Blackpool Victoria Hospital should have detected anomalies in their son’s brain structure during an ultrasound scan carried out at 20 weeks gestation, claiming the scan was conducted in a “fairly light-hearted and casual manner” and lacked “proper focus and intensity.”

The court heard that the couple had difficultly conceiving naturally but that the woman had finally become pregnant after fertility treatment.

The son, now 14 years old and known only as X due to a court order preventing the parents and child being identified, was born with a rare brain disorder which resulted in mental and physical disabilities.

The couple’s lawyer, Robert Glancy QC, told the court that, despite the fact that the parents say they love and cherish their son, “The claimants contend, which is not disputed by the defendant, that if this major brain malformation had been detected and then diagnosed . . . then the pregnancy would have been terminated at that stage.”

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Two parents who obviously don’t know what the word “love” actually means.