Supreme Court of Minnesota October 24, 1986, C2-85-2013 (Hickman v. Group Health Plan, Inc.)

YETKA, Justice.

This case comes to us as a certified question from the Hennepin County District Court. The issue to be determined is the constitutionality of Minnesota’s wrongful birth statute, Minn.Stat. § 145.424, subd. 2 (1984). The district court, in ruling on cross motions for partial summary judgment, struck down the wrongful birth statute as unconstitutional under Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S.