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SERNOVITZ v. DERSHAW

Nos. 123 MAP 2014, 124 MAP 2014

127 A.3d 783 (2015)

Rebecca SERNOVITZ and Lawrence Sernovitz, Individually and as Parents and Natural Guardians of Samuel Sernovitz v. Stuart Z. DERSHAW, M.D., John Stack, M.D., Laura Borthwick-Scelzi, M.D., Margaret M. Fillinger, CRNP, Women's Care of Montgomery County, Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical Center and Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc. The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Intervenor. Appeal of Stuart Z. Dershaw, M.D., John Stack, M.D., Laura Borthwick-Scelzi, M.D., Margaret M. Fillinger, CRNP, Women's Care of Montgomery County, Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical Center and Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc. Rebecca Sernovitz and Lawrence Sernovitz, Individually and as Parents and Natural Guardians of Samuel Sernovitz v. Stuart Z. Dershaw, M.D., John Stack, M.D., Laura Borthwick-Scelzi, M.D., Margaret M. Fillinger, CRNP, Women's Care of Montgomery County, Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical Center and Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc. The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Intervenor. Cross Appeal of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Intervenor.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided November 18, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan F. Bloom, Esq. , Ian Michael Long, Esq. , Karl Stewart Myers, Esq. , Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, L.L.P., Philadelphia, David E. Somers III, Esq. , for General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Richard P. Abraham, Esq. , Theodore J. Caldwell Jr., Esq. , Young Ricchiuti Caldwell & Heller, L.L.C., Philadelphia, for Rebecca & Lawrence Sernovitz.

Donald N. Camhi, Esq. , Sheila Ann Haren, Esq. , Barbara S. Magen, Esq. , Post & Schell, P.C., Philadelphia, for Stuart Z. Dershaw, M.D., Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc., et al.

SAYLOR, C.J., EAKIN, BAER, TODD, STEVENS, JJ.

OPINION

In this discretionary appeal, we address a legislative-process challenge to a 1988 enactment raised in the context of a professional negligence lawsuit filed in 2010 and asserting causes of action for wrongful birth.

By way of background, the legislation in issue — Act 47 of 1988 ("Act...

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