Legal Opinion
Smith v. Cote
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Decided July 9, 1986No. 85-015PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBatchelder, J.
In this interlocutory transfer of questions arising in a medical malpractice case, we address for the first time two difficult and troubling areas of the law of prenatal torts: wrongful birth and wrongful life.
*234The transferred record discloses the following facts. Plaintiff Linda J. Smith became pregnant early in 1979. During the course of her pregnancy Linda was under the care of the defendants, physicians who specialize in obstetrics and gynecology. Linda consulted the defendants on April 8, 1979, complaining of nausea, abdominal pain and a late menstrual period. The defendants prescribed…
2Cases cited49 opinions
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- Tobin v. GrossmanNew York Court of Appeals · 1969
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