No cause of action for wrongful life
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Reed v. Campagnolo (1993)
Most recently applied in Willis Ex Rel. Willis v. Wu (December 2004)
Effective: 28 Aug 1986; (L. 1986 H.B. 1596)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
1. No person shall maintain a cause of action or receive an award of damages on behalf of himself or herself based on the claim that but for the negligent conduct of another, he or she would have been aborted.
2. No person shall maintain a cause of action or receive an award of damages based on the claim that but for the negligent conduct of another, a child would have been aborted.
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.