Background information and the decisions in three recent wrongful birth court cases in Britain are summarized. One case involved damages claimed for the birth of a healthy infant to a single mother after an unsuccessful ...

Brahams briefly reviews a British Court of Appeals decision,

Last year the Ontario High Court held a doctor liable in damages for giving an unconscious patient a life-saving blood transfusion. The patient carried a card stating that she was a Jehovah's Witness and the doctor saw ...

An Appeal Court review, brought by the Official Solicitor of Great Britain of a justice's declaration that sterilization of a mentally handicapped woman would not be unlawful only by reason of her incapacity to consent to ...

Commenting on the California case of Elizabeth Bouvia, a quadreplegic who requested hospital assistance to alleviate suffering while she starved herself to death, Brahams expresses the hope that no patient in the United Kingdom ...

The case of a British prisoner serving a life term for sexual offenses who alleged that he was forcibly subjected to treatment with psychoactive drugs is described. Prison authorities argued that the plaintiff had consented ...

The use of the postcoital pill and the IUD might be illegal under British law if, as some groups contend, conception is defined as fertilization of the ovum. An amendment stipulating that conception includes implantation would ...

Legal charges were dismissed on 15 September 1983 in the case of Anthony Hamilton, a British gynecologist charged with attempted murder for inducing an abortion that resulted in the delivery and survival of an infant of ...