Lesbian Couple Happy To Buy A Baby But Not To Get A Black One
by D C McAllister, The Federalist:
These women are more concerned about racial differences than about the fact that they intentionally paid to procure a child who has no father in her life.
A white lesbian couple is suing a sperm bank for a second time because it gave them sperm from a black donor instead of a white one as they requested. Jennifer Cramblett filed the lawsuit last week against Midwest Sperm Bank LLC, which she blames for “an unplanned transracial parent-child relationship” that she says has caused her to move to a “place that is more racially and culturally diverse.”
The complaint says she gave birth to a “beautiful, obviously mixed race, baby” girl in 2012 after she learned several months beforehand that the sperm was from a black donor. Claiming negligence, misconduct, and breach of contract, she is seeking $150,000 plus punitive damages and attorney fees.
According to the complaint, Cramblett “is now facing numerous challenges and external pressures associated with an unplanned transracial parent-child relationship for which she was not, and is not, prepared.”
In an earlier “wrongful birth” lawsuit filed in an Illinois court, which the judge dismissed, Cramblett said that although she and her partner love the little girl, she is concerned about bringing her up in a white “often unconsciously insensitive” family.
Cramblett said she and her partner wanted a donor with “genetic traits similar to both of them” and picked one after reviewing his history. She said her family is already uncomfortable that she is a lesbian, and that she doesn’t want her daughter to feel stigmatized due to the circumstances of her birth.
Depriving a Child of a Father Is Cruel
What Cramblett and others who favor sperm donations fail to miss is that the issue is not stigmatization but the fact that two people have purposely chosen to bring a child into this world without her ever knowing her father. Self-knowledge is necessary to becoming a healthy human being, and part of that self-knowledge is knowing who your parents are and where you come from.
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