Bill would stop wrongful birth lawsuits in Mississippi

No known “wrongful birth” and “wrongful life” lawsuits have been filed in Mississippi, but one lawmaker wants to make sure one is never filed.

Senate Bill 2034, filed by Sen. Angela Burks Hill, R-Picayune, would shield doctors from liability against a claim that a child shouldn’t have been born.

The issue involves doctors telling parents about their child's birth defects.

Hill’s bill says “No civil action may be commenced in any court for a claim of wrongful birth, and a person is not liable for damages in any civil action for wrongful birth based on a claim that, but for an act or omission of the defendant, a child or children would not or should not have been born.”

Read more: http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/09/mississippi-wrongful-birth-lawsuits/96353220/