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    …development has involved the so-called wrongful conception, wrongful birth, and wrongful life actions, appearing first in the United States (from about the early 1970s) and later in Europe. The harmful event is typically negligence on the part of a doctor who fails to carry out effectively a sterilization operation, with…

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    …development has involved the so-called wrongful conception, wrongful birth, and wrongful life actions, appearing first in the United States (from about the early 1970s) and later in Europe. The harmful event is typically negligence on the part of a doctor who fails to carry out effectively a sterilization operation, with…

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