Debate: Inform parents of unborn child's mental disability?

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<Tab/>Should doctors inform expecting parents of an unborn child's mental disorder/disability for the sole purpose of allowing them to decide whether or not to continue in the pregnancy? <Tab/>Parents of children with mental disorders or disabilities have no easy job, and it is often extremely difficult when the parents are not prepared to handle such a child. I have been fortunate enough not to …

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…have an abortion. (The French National Assembly has since passed a law that stops people with disabilities from filing so-called "wrongful birth" lawsuits against doctors for allowing them to be born. The new law states that "nobody can claim to have been harmed simply by being born". It would still allow parents to sue doctors if they made a "blatant error" and failed to diagnose a serious illness in a fetus or a pregnant woman.)