Soutoul J H, Pierre F
J Gynecol Obstet Biol Reprod (Paris). 1986;15(3):273-9.
Specialists who carry out abortions and male or females sterilizations which are legally controlled under the penal law in the category of voluntarily accepted assaults on the body can risk legal actions against the doctors as a result of parents seeking damages for detriment suffered following failure of legally performed terminations of pregnancy or of sterilisation, which had been considered as certain, resulting in preservation of fertility. The authors have looked through the western literature and found that there is both a moral and a financial detriment which plaintiffs can plead after the birth of a normal or a malformed child after an attempt at termination of pregnancy or at sterilisation. They take note of a list of cases of claims which have given rise to a whole body of jurisprudence in France since 1976 and which show that magistrates have some resistance to awarding damages for such detriment.
根据刑法规定，在自愿接受的身体伤害类别中，实施堕胎以及男性或女性绝育手术属于法律管控范畴。由于父母会因合法进行的妊娠终止或绝育手术失败（原本被认为确定有效，结果却保留了生育能力）而遭受损害，进而寻求赔偿，实施这些手术的专科医生可能面临法律诉讼。作者查阅了西方文献，发现无论是正常孩子还是畸形孩子在堕胎或绝育尝试后出生，原告都可以提出道德和经济损害赔偿诉求。他们留意到自1976年以来法国出现了一系列索赔案例，这些案例形成了一整套判例法，表明法官在判定此类损害赔偿时存在一定阻力。
