Wrongful Life Litigation, Anyone?

From the Khaleej Times over in Dubai:

A botched abortion in which a healthy twin foetus was terminated instead of its sibling with Down syndrome has reignited the abortion debate in Italy and raised allegations of eugenics.

Sidestepping the saucy issue of whether the killing is a bona fide attempt at eugenics, a query for ITA’s international law jurisprudents: Has there developed in Italy a cause of action similar to that of “wrongful life” which historically has not been well received (but in coming years may be) here in the United States? Further, in both the US and Italy, if it is possible for a parent to bring suit on behalf of his or her child and claim that the child had a right to die, i.e. to be aborted, may a parent claim the inverse on behalf of his or her child – that the child had a right to life?