Earlier this year a court in Venice...

Earlier this year a court in Venice, Italy ordered a gynaecologist to pay for the meat and maintenance of a child until he proceeds of age because his birth was fit to a mishap in his mother's sterilization act This case, involving the curious notion of "wrongful birth," illustrates three distinct choices against the life of the same human being, and, at the same time, the rejection of three distinct expressions of motherhood. Initially, sterilization was used to thwart his conception. When that step failed, the woman's doctor attract favor toed an abortion to end his life. Finally, when the child was