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France: The birth of an extraordinary cruel law

The Catholic church and its co-goers have marched another step
forward in France. "No one may claim to have been prejudiced by the
simple fact of their birth? starts a new bill, approved by the French
parliament in January 2002. It curbs a ruling of the Supreme Court
from November 2000, which had awarded severely handicapped children
the legal right to have never been born.

This ruling came out in the following case: In the early stages of her
pregnancy, Josette got infected with measles. Since such an infection
poses a high risk for the unborn child to suffer severe damages, this
would have been a strong medical indication for abortion. But her
neglegent doctors failed to alert her about the danger and thereby
denied her the chance to undergo an abortion in time. Some months
later, she gave birth to Nicolas, a severely mentally handicapped, deaf
and almost blind child. She sued her doctors on behalf of Nicolas and
won the case after a long legal battle. When her son was already a
teenager, the Supreme Court awarded him compensation.

The ruling of the Supreme Court had a controversial implication. It was
based on the theoretical concept of Nicolas' legal right to have never
been born (corresponding with Josette's legal right to undergo an
abortion in the interest of her severely damaged unborn child). And
here started the chorus of pious life-protectors its well-known song
with all the ingredients to unleash a highly emotional public debate and
great confusion. They were supported by a certain section of pre-natal
practitioners and ultra-sound specialists, who feared the ruling would
open the gates for a flood of compensation claims against them, and by
some organizations for handicapped, who hoped more members would
give them more power to fight for their rights. Under this pressure the
new bill was passed.

It is, despite the rolling drums of ethics and humaneness, an
extraordinary cruel law. It is a license to push knowingly and willingly
or just carelessly a human being into a life of unimaginable suffering,
humiliation and hopelessness. In a time, where we are scientifically well
equipped to anticipate and prevent this catastrophe, how dare we
assume the right to condemn a child to be born into hell?

How humane and friendly is, on the other side, the concept that with
its birth every child is granted the chance for a healthy, happy and
meaningful life! This would include a generally healthy body and mind,
health care, nutrition, education, sufficient space, access to nature, the
freedom to decide how and where and with whom together to live, the
chance to unfold and use its capacities, and much more. Wouldn't it be
a great welcome gesture for its new member, if society expressed its
respect and well wishing by considering all these as birthrights? And
in case, these cannot be granted for technical reasons, wouldn't it be
fair to grant the potential child the legal right not to be born?

We are far away from a world ruled to this degree by human dignity.
But the proposal of the French Supreme Court has, in a very modest
way, turned the guide post in the right direction by awarding a
potential child the right on a good life. The right to have a good life is
something fundamentally different from the duty to live under
whatsoever conditions. It includes the right to end your life, if it has
become unacceptable for you, as well as the duty to prevent a new
life's beginning, if it would be a condemnation to a life term of torture.
Whenever possible, this should be done by way of contraception,
abortion being reserved as an emergency solution. This would be the
duty of any civilized society, and it would have to be translated into
laws, giving responsibilities to executive institutions like parents, legal
and medical advisers in charge, and enforcing them.
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