Outraged: Their Baby Order Was Messed Up
October 1, 2014
WILL writes:
This came across my feed today, and it seems right up your alley. Of course, the headline buried the lede. The couple in question rejecting their artificially inseminated baby is a lesbian couple, not “white parents.”
A white Ohio mom is suing a sperm bank for sending her vials from a black donor, saying her biracial 2-year-old will be stigmatized by her family and the “intolerant” town where they live and has to travel to get her hair done.
Jennifer Cramblett thought she was being inseminated with a white man’s sperm in 2011 and only discovered after she was pregnant that the Midwest Sperm Bank sent the wrong batch, according to the lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court.
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown, where 98 percent of the residents are white, court papers say.
“She carried her daughter Payton for nine months. She has bonded with the child and she loves Payton very much,” her lawyer, Thomas Intili, told NBC News on Wednesday.
“But she lives in an all-white community in eastern Ohio. She did not encounter any African-American people until she entered college. Not all her friends and family members are racially sensitive.”
As an example of the difficulties the family faces, the suit cited hair care for the toddler.
“Getting a young daughter’s hair cut is not particularly stressful for most mothers, but to Jennifer it is not a routine matter, because Payton has hair typical of an African American girl,” the suit says.
Laura writes:
According to this report:
Ms Cramblett says she grew up in Scio, Ohio – population 762 – and didn’t meet a black person until she attended college. She currently lives in Uniontown, population 2,802, and fears Payton will be the only non-white child in class when the time comes for her to attend school.
I bet a lesban couple is far more unusual in Uniontown than a black person and I bet poor Payton will be the only “daughter” of lesbians in the class.
— Comments —
Hurricane Betsy writes:
I love your response. Also, it is time this woman was publicly called out for her obvious, shameless racism. Black baby ain’t good enough for ya?
Laura writes:
Thanks, but their point is that the town they live in and their relatives are racists and that’s why they need the money to move.
NP writes:
But I think the question is whether these two “ladies” are upset because their town does not like interracial children or whether they themselves would prefer to have an all white child.
It reminds me of my old friend Sam Francis’ essay “Equality as a Political Weapon.” He said that no one believes in equality, it’s just a way of rearranging political relationships. Yes, they claim to believe in equality when it helps their purpose (same sex relationships) but on other issues (interracial children) their attitude is somewhat more uncertain.
Laura writes:
Truthfully, I don’t care what their real motives are. They are exploiting a child, either way.
Ann H. writes:
Maybe the child should sue the mother for forcing her (the child )to have to grow up half lesbian. Where will this end?