The Nation - News from March 27, 1985

Doctors and hospitals performing faulty sterilization procedures cannot be sued for the costs of rearing children who result from “wrongful births,” New York’s highest court ruled. “To hold that the birth of a healthy child represents a legal harm would be to engage this court in the jurisprudentially improper task of recasting the immutable, intrinsic value of human life according to the financial burden thus imposed upon the parents,” Judge Matthew Jasen of the Court of Appeals wrote in the 6-0 decision.