Legal Opinion
Kassama v. Magat
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided February 28, 2001No. 837, Sept. Term, 1999PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SALMON, Judge.
In this “wrongful life” case, an infant plaintiff asserts that she would have been better off if she had never been born and that she should have been aborted. This presents a question of first impression in Maryland, viz:
May a doctor whose negligence caused a mother not to abort her pregnancy be successfully sued for “wrongful life” by a genetically defective child born as a consequence of the doctor’s negligence?
We hold that Maryland does not recognize a cause of action for wrongful life and, accordingly, answer that question in the negative.
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2Cases cited46 opinions
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