"wrongful birth" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wrongful births [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} wrongful birth (countable and uncountable, plural wrongful births)
  1. A lawsuit filing, claiming that a doctor failed to advise the parents that a child might have the prospect of birth defects. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-wrongful_birth-en-noun-wbNrDatG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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