Court Opinion

ID: 9634624
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 13:18:24.00517+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:42:59.752781
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SPAETH, Judge,
concurring and dissenting:
I agree with the result reached by the majority except in one respect. I believe that the parents should be permitted to recover (if they can prove) damages for emotional distress and physical inconvenience attributable to the birth of their son. I stated my reasons for this belief in my concurring and dissenting opinion in Speck v. Finegold, 268 Pa.Super. 342, 408 A.2d 496 (1979). And see Berman v. Allan, 80 N.J. 421, 404 A.2d 8 (1979); Betancourt v. Gaylor, 136 N.J.Super. 69, 344 A.2d 336 (1975); Custodio v. Bauer, 251 Cal.App.2d 303, 59 Cal.Rptr. 463 (1967).
The order of the lower court should be affirmed.