The Georgia Supreme Court ruled three years ago that state law did not allow for medical malpractice suits claiming “wrongful births” – cases brought by parents who would have terminated pregnancies had doctors warned them of foreseeable birth defects.

On Thursday, a panel of the Georgia Court of Appeals heard arguments about a claim for what could be called “wrongful abortion,” and sounded ready to order the case to trial.

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