This Morning fans fumed as a woman appeared on the ITV show to discuss suing her GP for allowing her to be born.
Evie Toombes - who hails from Skegness, Lincolnshire - spoke to hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby on the ITV mid-morning show today. She is suing her mother's GP for damages after saying her birth shouldn't have been allowed to happen.
She was diagnosed with spina bifida - a condition which means a baby's spine and spinal cord doesn't develop in the womb, leading to gaps in the spine - and she has to spend a large proportion of her life in a wheelchair.
However, viewers tuning into the ITV show today were less than impressed with her decision to sue the doctor, as Evie claimed the medical professional should be liable for a 'wrong conception charge' after failing to advise her mother to take supplements before she got pregnant.
"This story sets a very uneasy precedent where doctors won’t be allowed to give their own educated and qualified opinions to their patients and are forced to stick to what their told to say by those above them. Very strange indeed... #ThisMorning," one penned, as a second viewer added online: "Honestly this segment is making me so angry. #ThisMorning."
"Is she for real? #ThisMorning," a third shared, with a fourth adding: "No one can predict the out come of pregnancy, taking all the vitamins in the world still cant predict how your genes are wired. #ThisMorning."
A fifth said: "Trying to get money out of the NHS when it’s already crumbling, I feel sorry for the mother #ThisMorning."
However, other viewers were divided by her decision to sue.
" #ThisMorning I really don’t know what to make of this case in all honesty and have a child with severe complex needs. It seems some what selective with who gets what & who’s entitled to what," one mum wrote.
During the chat, Evie explained her side of what happened.
"This is the case of a GP, who actually admitted to giving advice that was negligent," she began, "My mum specifically went to advice before conceiving because she was coming off the pill and wanted to make sure everything was ok.
"She didn't have a family of her own - usually you'd probably go to your mum - she didn't have her mum to go to so just wanted to talk to the GP and find out if everything was ok."
She added: "And when she went, she specifically asked about if she needed to take folic acid. Right there and then, the GP said folic acid wasn't necessary and then what transpired when I was born, and my mum was looking to have a second child and make sure if there was anything she could do to prevent it again, that actually she should have been told about folic acid."
