Justice missing in wrongful life cases  By Richard Ackland May
12, 2006  AMID all the worries about the constitutionality of
the corporations power's latest little love child, WorkChoices,
it is amazing that the High Court managed this week to deliver
its decision in the anxiously awaited "wrongful life" cases.
The corporations power is a snack compared to the importation of
religion, morality, metaphysics and logic into the legal
principles involved in determining whether someone who might not
have been born at all, had their mother's doctor not been
negligent, can be compensated for severe disabilities because
they had in fact been born. What a field day.  Alexia Harriton,
25, and Keeden Waller, 5, were born terribly disabled. Alexia's
mother had German measles while pregnant. Her doctor did not
diagnose rubella and did not prescribe a follow-up blood test.
Importantly, he did not advise her there would be a very high
risk her child would be born with abnormalities. Alexia is
blind, deaf, mentally retarded