麻省中國父母羊水穿刺案 - 最後賠了七百萬

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/05/06/shrewsbury_mother_of_disabled_child_wins_a_7_million_settlement/

A superior court judge approved a $7 million settlement yesterday in a lawsuit brought by a Shrewsbury woman against four medical professionals at a Worcester hospital, whom she accused of failing to offer or explain tests that could have prompted her to have an abortion rather than carry her now-disabled child to term, her lawyer said yesterday

(Mother's lawyer) Halstrom also wrote that Herlihy said that a procedure called amniocentesis, which would have shown Zhuang “the complete genetic make-up’’ of her fetus, was offered to her during one appointment. However, Halstrom wrote, a translator was not present during that session and Zhuang’s husband, Zhiru Guo, acted as an interpreter, which is a violation of medical protocol. Zhuang is originally from China and does not speak English.

這個案子是雙方和解的，不是法官判的。