A British mother has filed a so-called “wrongful birth” lawsuit against the National Health System this week, claiming that she would have aborted her son if she had known that he had Down syndrome.
33-yr-old Edyta Mordel, of Reading, England, has accused medical professionals of not offering her prenatal tests that would have detected her son’s Down Syndrome before birth, The Mirror reports.
She now wants around €250,000 in compensation claiming that she would have aborted her own son Aleksander, who has Down Syndrome, if she’d found out he had the condition while in the womb.
According to the Mirror, “Miss Mordel would have been offered an abortion and her partner, Aleksander’s father Lukasz Cieciura, agreed they would have terminated the pregnancy,” her barrister Coldagh Bradley QC said.
She said she carried on with her pregnancy, allegedly thinking nothing was wrong with her unborn son.
“I was reassured so many times everything was alright, that the pregnancy was fine,” Mordel said, according to the Daily Mail.
She gave birth to the beautiful little boy in 2015 at the Royal Berkshire Hospital where doctors soon diagnosed him with Down syndrome. Mordel’s medical records note that she was “very upset and angry” when she learned about her son’s condition.
Legal representatives for the NHS argue that she was offered prenatal testing for Down syndrome during her 12-week scan but refused it, pointing to notes on her medical records that read “Down’s screening declined,” according to the Mirror. The case continues.
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