Edyta Mordel, a mother who said she would have aborted her ‘beloved’ son had she known he had Down’s Syndrome, has won a massive NHS compensation payout after antenatal tests were not carried out as she had requested:
Although she is now devoted to four-year-old Aleksander, Edyta Mordel told the High Court in London she would have terminated her pregnancy if she had known he would be born with Down’s as she ‘would not have wanted her child to suffer the way that disabled people suffer’.
Miss Mordel, 33, was devastated when Aleksander was born disabled at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in 2015 – but has since devoted herself to caring for her beloved son.
At the High Court today, Mr Justice Jay ruled against the Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Trust and awarded Ms Mordel – who wants more than £200,000 – the right to massive damages.
He said the sonographer who conducted Mrs Mordel’s scan had failed to obtain her ‘informed consent’ to going ahead without the Down’s Syndrome screening.
Previously, Ms Mordel’s lawyers estimated her claim to be worth more than £200,000, which she would use to cover the increased costs of bringing up a disabled child.
Miss Mordel insists she asked for checks to be carried out during her pregnancy. The case is legally termed as a ‘wrongful birth’ because Miss Mordel says she would have had an abortion if she had known of the condition.
Figures from 2017 revealed that the NHS Litigation Authority had paid £70million to parents in ‘wrongful birth’ cases in five years.
The most effective way of demonstrating real love for your child is to tell him that you would have aborted him had you known he wouldn’t be born “up to snuff.” Luckily, children with Down’s Syndrome are generally incredibly affectionate and loving, so this mother probably won’t have to deal with any pointed questions and doubts from her child.
God gave this woman a Down’s Syndrome child because she obviously needed an attitude adjustment, but she clearly doesn’t see it that way. Clearly there’s nothing wrong with her or her values. It’s much more profitable to believe she has a Down’s child because of the hospital’s incompetence rather than the will of God. After all, no one has successfully sued God — yet.
If she had taken her 90n essential nutrients, his deficiencies would have been corrected. Joel Wallach did this with Evel Kneivel’s neice. She was positive for her baby having Down’s and with nutritional therapy, he came out normal. Folks, look up free PDF of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price, he called this maternal Exhaustion, and it’s correctable if caught early enough. I have been able tpo correct problems in my goats with adequate nutrition (they are weak and get Floppy kid syndrome when they don’t get enough B complex, Vitamin e and selenium. When I feed the mothers rice bran as a supplement, this is never a problem, but if we are too broke to do that, I always have problems. It’s still correctable at that early stage but honestly it’s better to not have to go through it at all. It’s always harder to load fingerfulls of gooey vitamins into baby goats’ mouths than to just feed the mothers rice bran earlier in the pregnancy. Some goat people never know it’s nutritional and correctable in a few days and make wheelchairs for the paralyzed back legs and go on like that for life.
This story has been chosen by TPTB for mass promotion. ‘Miss Mordel, 33…’ Often we see ‘MM’ as a proxy for 33 (rotate M and you get a 3) or as allusion of ‘Master Mason’. There is nothing they love more than a dual ’33’ – you can find many photos of it adorning their robes.
The message is that having a baby should be like buying a puppy – you pick one that suits your lifestyle, not accept Gods plan for you.
My aunty was Down Syndrome. She spent her adult life working with close friends in a dedicated Sisters of Mercy dormitory & commercial laundry – a productive happy life.
I am pretty conservative, but do not believe any woman should have to give birth to a child that will have a birth defect. Life is hard enough if you are healthy, to knowingly bring a child into this world that has such a large strike against it is downright selfish and cruel in my opinion. I wouldn’t dream of it.
I feel very badly for this woman and she should have made sure such a test was carried out. It’s amazing how many would fault the parent for such a termination, yet they themselves have never had a child that will be a life long burden to them and remain childlike, ongoing health issues and costs, taking attention away from their other healthy children that will forever come second because the ill one will always needs extra attention.
To have a child like that, you will be responsible for it until the day you die, they will never be able to look after themselves or have a normal, happy life. Even after the parents die, they will be a burden for someone, a family member that takes them in reluctantly, infringing on their own life, or a group home. Sorry, sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind and bringing a child into this world with something seriously wrong with it is not the answer.
I was friends with a woman that had a daughter with multiple health issues and will continue to. That child sapped her of her very life. Of course she never complained, but knowing what she knows now, what any parent knows that has had their entire life turned upside down like that, I would think most would not proceed. No one should ever judge a person for that. If someone wants to end a pregnancy because it’s not the right time or something, that is a bit frivolous of a reason, but when there is something not right health wise with the child, that is a valid reason.
My son is living proof that Big Pharma ‘tests’ are not foolproof. Terminate a pregnancy based tests known to be flawed? Just as in the case of rape, where a resultant pregnancy is extremely rare, it is an ACT OF GOD that is bringing that child into this world, not an accident. We as Christians are judged by how we treat those less fortunate than us…can we arbitrarily kill anyone who we deem to be too much of a burden to us? Please tell me you are not in favor of euthanasia or ‘supported suicide’ too? From everything I have read in the Scriptures, there is NOTHING in there to support abortion (euthanasia, suicide, etc.) for ANY reason.
Jennifer, you call yourself “pretty conservative,” so I’m curious to know just what exactly you’re trying to “conserve” and why?
I’m at a loss for words, and that doesn’t happen that often. I’m just stunned at the despicable hypocrisy of this white woman.
I guess she’s ok with this way of thinking because her child was not a child at all while inside of her, and her ‘courageous’ act of saving the child from itself wouldn’t have even necessitated her to do anything but forget it was even there…despite the fact that hospitals’ laboratory testing can certainly produce incorrect results.
My oldest son was determined by doctors and their tests that he was going to be born with Down’s Syndrome. Despite this, I did not even think about an abortion…and he was born healthy and has developed into the finest Christian young man I know…