The hidden side of the abortion issue

By: Law is Cool · August 31, 2009 · Filed Under Civil Rights, Ethics · Add Comment

MDs face scrutiny over duty to unborn

Does an obstetrician have a duty of care to an unborn child?

A Guelph hospital, citing a 2008 court decision that found a doctor had no such obligation in the case of a girl born with birth defects because of an acne drug prescribed to her mother, says no.

But the family of another child says yes.

Post tags: abortion, Accutane, Barbara Legate, cerebral palsy, Guelph, Guelph General Hospital, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, Jaime Paxton, Liebig, london, obstetrician, Ontario Court of Appeal, oxytocin, unborn children

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