Chapter 4.D.2: Compensable Injuries

On wrongful birth and wrongful life recovery generally, see Daniel Whitney & Kenneth Rosenbaum, Recovery of Damages for Wrongful Birth, 32 J. Leg. Med. 167 (2011); Note, Wrongful Birth Actions: The Case Against Legislative Curtailment, 100 Harv. L. Rev. 2017 (1987); George A. Brown, Wrongful Life: A Misconceived Tort - An Introduction, 15 U.C. Davis L. REV. 445 (1981); Alexander M. Capron, Tort Liability in Genetic Counseling, 79 Colum. L. Rev. 618 (1979); William J. Curran, Genetic Counseling and Wrongful Life, 68 Am. J. Public Health 501 (1978).

For international perspectives, see Serena Scurria, Alessio Asmundo, Patrizia Gualniera, Cross-Country Comparative Analysis of Legislation and Court Rulings in Wrongful Birth Actions, 39 J. Legal Med. 35 (2019)

Notes: Recognizing Life as an Injury

Note 3. Disability Rights Perspectives

For additional scholarship on the intersection of disability rights and birth harms, see Sofia Yakren, "Wrongful Birth" Claims and the Paradox of Parenting A Child with A Disability, 87 Fordham L. Rev. 583 (2018); Seana Valentine Shiffrin, Wrongful Life, Procreative Responsibility, and the Significance of Harm, 5 Legal Theory 117 (1999).

Note 4. Procreative Harm

For further discussion of procreative harms and their recognition in U.S. law, see Dov Fox and Jill Wieber Lens, Valuing Reproductive Loss, 112 Geo. L. J. 61 (2023); Yaniv Heled et. al., Righting A Reproductive Wrong: A Statutory Tort Solution to Misrepresentation by Reproductive Tissue Providers, 60 Hous. L. Rev. 1 (2022); Boston University Online Symposium: Dov Fox, Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law (2019); Dov Fox, Reproductive Negligence, 117 Colum. L. Rev. 149 (2017).