Bonbrest v. Kotz

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a viable fetus is a “separate, distinct, and individual entity” from its mother and thus may bring a cause of action in tort for prenatal injuries in its own right
• child had standing to sue a doctor when that child was a viable fetus injured directly by 31 the actions of that doctor
• recovery was specifically limited to infants born alive, 65 F. Supp. at 142

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).