The Georgia Supreme Court on Thursday took up a question that lower courts have answered uniformly, albeit with no small degree of frustration: Does the state’s bar on “wrongful birth” claims leave no recourse for parents who bought sperm from a highly touted donor later revealed to have mental issues and a criminal record.

Lawyers for the parents of a child sired by “Donor 9623” and Georgia-based Xytex Sperm Bank were peppered with questions by the justices, who seemed leery of the plaintiffs’ arguments that a 30-year-old decision barring “wrongful birth” lawsuits doesn’t apply to the case.

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