Haymon v. Wilkerson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiff must establish that had she learned of impairment during her pregnancy, she would have terminated pregnancy
• noting the rationale of a decision denying a wrongful-pregnancy claim was “misplaced in the context of [a] wrongful birth case” because “the claimed injury and the economic relief sought . . . are completely distinct”
• extraordinary medical and other expenses, recoverable; no claim made for ordinary child-rearing expenses; postmajority expenses left unresolved
• parent of Down’s Syndrome child has cause of action for wrongful birth where physician failed to properly advise amniocentesis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).