Supreme Court of Illinois

In a wrongful death action arising from an automobile accident where plaintiff, pregnant at the time, sustained pelvic injuries, judgment in favor of defendant is affirmed where plaintiff chose to have a therapeutic abortion in order to facilitate repairs to her pelvis and the fetus, was unharmed by the accident, did not have a cause of action at the time of abortion, and thus the parents could not maintain a cause of action for wrongful death.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/03/2008
• Published 04/03/2008

Judges

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Cremer, Kopon, Shaughnessy & Spina, LLC, Chicago (Francis A. Spina, Geoffrey M. Waguespack, of counsel), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul P. Wolf, J.W. Mitchell, of Mitchell Hoffman & Wolf LLC, Chicago, for appellee.