Hickman v. Group Health Plan, Inc.

YETKA, Justice.

This case comes to us as a certified question from the Hennepin County District Court. The issue to be determined is the constitutionality of Minnesota’s wrongful birth statute, Minn.Stat. § 145.424, subd. 2 (1984). The district court, in ruling on cross motions for partial summary judgment, struck down the wrongful birth statute as unconstitutional under Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S.Ct. 705, 35 L.Ed.2d 147 (1973). Noting the significance of this question, however, pursuant to Minn.R.Civ. App.P. 103.03(h), the district court certified it to us as important and doubtful.

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