Greco v. United States

*407OPINION

By the Court,

Springer, J.:

In this case we certify to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland that a mother has a tort claim in negligent malpractice against professionals who negligently fail to make a timely diagnosis of gross and disabling fetal defects, thereby denying the mother her right to terminate the pregnancy. We further certify that the child born to this mother has no personal cause of action for what is sometimes called “wrongful life.”

As Justice Felix Frankfurter observed, “[Pjerhaps no field of the law comes closer to the lives of so many families…