Remember when Helen Keller turned her enormous disadvantages into strengths? I have to wonder if she would reconsider her life had she been given a legal option like
this Australian woman.
A blind and deaf Australian woman who claims she never should have been born is suing a doctor for a lifetime of suffering in the country's first "wrongful life" suit.
Alexia Harriton, 24, is seeking compensation from the doctor who misdiagnosed rubella in the first trimester of her mother's pregnancy, claiming Olga Harriton would have aborted her had she been aware of the potential birth defects arising from the illness.Granted, the woman is mentally disabled, but the suit is filed under her name at the behest of her mother and lawyers. It's quite a shame that her mother can look at her and say, "I would have aborted that."
