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The Doctor's Silence Took Her Chance to Choose
A Texas mother says her doctor’s silence stole her chance to choose - how did that omission become a legal injury in wrongful birth law?
The Doctor's Silence Took Her Chance to Choose
In this episode, we lay out the facts of a landmark 1975 Texas Supreme Court case and the medical context that framed it. We follow Dortha Jean Jacobs’s pregnancy, the silence she says she was given about rubella, and the legal question about whether withholding information can itself be an injury.
Person: Dortha Jean Jacobs
Person: Lesli (her daughter)
Event: Texas Supreme Court ruling, February 19, 1975
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