Compensating the Child for the Harm of being Born DisabledA Comparative Study

Abstract

The doctor's error in diagnosing and detecting deformities or serious illness of the fetus during pregnancy led to the birth of a disabled child, because if the parents had known about this, they would have rushed to perform some surgical interventions on the fetus, if it was possible to reduce the extent of this disability or end it by performing these therapeutic interventions on the fetus while it was inside the womb, or resorted to abortion if it was not possible to reduce the extent of this disability or end it by performing some surgical interventions on this fetus, and thus it can be said that the doctor's error is the direct cause of the damage, and it does not change anything that the fetus was afflicted with a disability before committing this error, because if such an error had not occurred, the parents would certainly have resorted to one of the two options above, in order to avoid the birth of a disabled child, which makes the latter entitled to request compensation