wrongful-pregnancy action — n. A lawsuit brought against a doctor by a parent for damages resulting from a pregnancy after a failed procedure to sterilize. Webster s New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000 … Law dictionary
wrongful pregnancy action — n. A lawsuit brought against a doctor by a parent for damages resulting from a pregnancy after a failed procedure to sterilize. Webster s New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000 … Law dictionary
wrongful conception — wrongful con·cep·tion / kən sep shən/ n: wrongful pregnancy Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 … Law dictionary
Wrongful abortion — The term Wrongful Abortion was defined by Perry Adar as an abortion that a pregnant woman is induced to undergo by negligent conduct (usually a medical misrepresentation). See [http://law.haifa.ac.il/faculty/eng/perry.htm Ronen Perry] Yehuda Adar … Wikipedia
wrongful — Injurious, heedless, unjust, reckless, unfair; it implies the infringement of some right, and may result from disobedience to lawful authority. Buhler v. Marrujo, 86 N.M. 399, 524 P.2d 1015, 1019. See also tort @ wrongful abuse of process See… … Black's law dictionary
wrongful birth — n: a malpractice claim brought by the parents of a child born with a birth defect against a physician or health care provider whose alleged negligence (as in prenatal testing or diagnosis) effectively deprived the parents of the opportunity to… … Law dictionary
Wrongful life — is the name given to a legal action in which someone is sued for failing to prevent the birth of a severely disabled child.Typically a child and the parents will sue a doctor or a hospital for failing to provide information about the disability… … Wikipedia
wrongful birth — noun Date: 1979 a malpractice claim brought by the parents of a child born with a birth defect against a physician or health care provider whose alleged negligence (as in diagnosis) effectively deprived the parents of the opportunity to make an… … New Collegiate Dictionary
Unintended pregnancy — Unintended pregnancies are those in which conception was not intended by the female sexual partner. Worldwide, 38% of pregnancies were unintended in 1999 (some 80 million unintended pregnancies in 1999).[1][2] Unintended pregnancies are the… … Wikipedia
Schwangerschaftsabbruch — Ein Schwangerschaftsabbruch (umgangssprachlich auch Abtreibung, manchmal mit negativer Konnotation; medizinisch abruptio graviditatis oder induzierter Abort) ist die absichtliche Beendigung einer unerwünschten oder die Gesundheit der Frau… … Deutsch Wikipedia