Forum Newsfront
December, 1981
Bearing the ConsequencesChicago--Parents can sue to recover the costs of raising a child born after an unsuccessful sterilization operation, the Illinois Appellate Court has ruled. The decision was handed down in two unrelated cases that were combined for the purpose of appealing unfavorable lower-court decisions, one involving a man who had undergone a vasectomy and the other a woman who became pregnant despite tubal cauterization. The defendants--two doctors, a laboratory and a hospital--argue...
