February 1, 2012 – 12:12 pm
In The Age today there’s an article about a couple with a severely disabled child suing an IVF practitioner in negligence: Debbie and Lawrence Waller love their 11-year-old son, Keeden, but they believe he should never have been born. Just days after Mrs Waller gave birth in August 2000 following IVF treatment, Keeden suffered a [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Children, Law, Motherhood, Parenthood, Tort, Welfare
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Tagged Cattanach v Melchior, disability, Harriton v Stephens, High Court of Australia, Keeden Waller, negligence, public policy, tort, Waller v James, welfare, welfare state, wrongful birth, wrongful life
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Miss Candy recommended I should read Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational, as she thought I should enjoy it. She was right. I like behavioural economics. I like to know the strange things which influence our decision making and the way in which we value certain things. Thus far, one of the most interesting experiments detailed in [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Economics, Fark!
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Tagged behavioural economics, Dan Ariely, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Economics, emotions, irrationality, morality, Predictably Irrational, rationality, Sex, sexuality
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January 10, 2011 – 11:07 am
A Victorian couple with three sons are asking VCAT to allow them to select the gender of their next child. The couple are desperate for a girl after they had a baby girl who died a few days after birth. The Herald Sun reports: [The couple] are asking the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal to [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Children, Feminism, Law, Motherhood, Parenthood, Public Policy, Society
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Tagged abortion, Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act, girl, IVF, Motherhood, parenthood, right to choose gender of child, selection of gender, VCAT
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October 15, 2010 – 11:48 am
Oh dear, I really must have a perverse desire to start Threads o’ Doom this week – first rape and sexual assault, now a post about abortion. Anyway, in news just in, a Cairns couple have been found not guilty of attempting to procure an abortion. The couple, Tegan Leach and Sergie Brennan, found out [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Children, Feminism, Law, Motherhood, Society
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Tagged abortifactants, abortion, Cairns, Cairns District Court, criminal law, fatherhood, Motherhood, parenthood, pro-choice, pro-life, Queensland, Sergie Brennan, Tegan Leach
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A prominent US abortion doctor has been shot dead at a church in the city of Wichita, Kansas. Dr George Tiller, one of the few US doctors who performed late-term abortions, had been vilified by anti-abortionists in the US. The gunman fled in a car, but officials say a suspect is now in custody. US [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Feminism, Funnies, Human/Civil rights, Personal liberty, Politics, Religion, Society, Terrorism
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Tagged abortion, Dr George Tiller, murder, pro-life
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January 9, 2009 – 10:18 pm
Having just given birth to my second child 8 weeks ago, I know it’s not easy to bounce back afterwards. When I was about 36 weeks pregnant, I was sitting in the gynaecologist’s waiting room, reading one of those trashy magazines. There was a story entitled, “How these celebs got their post-baby bodies back immediately.” [...]
December 12, 2008 – 7:18 pm
According to the President of the Australian Women Lawyers, it is more likely that female lawyers will become victims of the economic downturn than male lawyers: As we find ourselves in difficult economic times, with law firms retrenching staff, it is an unfortunate fact that the people at the lower end of the seniority spectrum [...]
October 11, 2008 – 9:35 am
It’s a perk of blogging that I get a platform to whinge. I’ve suddenly reached That Point in my pregnancy. That point of Feeling Fat and Frustrated. You swim along on a tide of hormones, feeling muzzy and happy, but then suddenly you reach the end of your tether. I’m so enormous at the moment [...]
September 30, 2008 – 9:50 pm
The law firm for which I worked when I had my daughter did not have paid maternity leave unless you were a partner. As far as I know, only one woman ever met that hurdle. It is a really short-sighted position to take when you are a profitable business with a pretty good turnover. I [...]
September 23, 2008 – 7:37 am
Today I’ve officially got 6 weeks to go until Baby is born. I’d know it wasn’t too far off anyway, because I have been overtaken by some very strange impulses…namely, cleaning impulses. Usually I’m not a very tidy person. Last time, before I had my daughter, I drove my poor husband wild. I tried to [...]
