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KASSAMA v. MAGAT

No. 837, Sept. Term, 1999.

767 A.2d 348 (2001)

136 Md. App. 637

Millicent KASSAMA, Individually, etc. v. Aaron H. MAGAT, et al.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

February 28, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matt R. Ballenger (T. Christine Pham and Suder & Suder, P.A., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

E. Dale Adkins, III (Lynne B. Malone, Gregory L. VanGeison and Anderson, Coe & King, LLP, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellees.

Argued before SALMON, MOYLAN, and GEORGE J. HELINSKI, (Ret., Specially Assigned), JJ.

SALMON, Judge.

In this "wrongful life" case, an infant plaintiff asserts that she would have been better off if she had never been born and that she should have been aborted. This presents a question of first impression in Maryland, viz:

May a doctor whose negligence caused a mother not to abort her pregnancy be successfully sued for "wrongful life" by a genetically defective child born as a consequence of...

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