{"id":31371,"date":"2012-03-15T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bp_couple_awarded_3m_in_wrongful_birth_suit\/"},"modified":"2012-03-15T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T15:32:08","slug":"bp_couple_awarded_3m_in_wrongful_birth_suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31371","title":{"rendered":"(BP) Couple awarded $3M in &#39;wrongful birth&#39; suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a civil society, there must be better remedies for cases like these,&#8221; said C. Ben Mitchell, professor of moral philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn. &#8220;Rather than &#8216;wrongful birth&#8217; suits, a robust social services infrastructure could relieve the burden families feel when they choose to bring disabled children into the world. There are many communities who would be willing to rally around these families if they knew the need.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the same time, we must repudiate abortion for disability,&#8221; said Mitchell, also a biomedical and life issues consultant for the Southern Baptist Convention&#8217;s Ethics &#038; Religious Liberty Commission. &#8220;The diagnosis of a disability, including Down syndrome, should not be a death sentence for the unborn baby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/bpnews.asp?id=37398\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a civil society, there must be better remedies for cases like these,&#8221; said C. Ben Mitchell, professor of moral philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn. &#8220;Rather than &#8216;wrongful birth&#8217; suits, a robust social services infrastructure could relieve the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31371\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,101,438,168,104,114,96,98,184,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-children","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}