Becker v. Schwartz

Insofar as this opinion relates to the case of Becker v Schwartz, I agree with the majority that the suit for "wrongful life” brought on behalf of the infant should be dismissed. I would, however, also dismiss the parents’ collateral suit for the expense of rearing an unwanted child.

A doctor who provides prenatal care to an expectant mother should not be held liable if the child is born with a genetic defect. Any attempt to find the physician responsible, even to a limited extent, for an injury which the child unquestionably inherited from his parents, requires a distortion or abandon*418ment of…