Oklahoma Judge: Sperm-Donor Baby Belongs With Mother And Father, Not Mom’s Lesbian Ex

Oklahoma judge ruled on Thursday that a baby created for a lesbian couple using purchased sperm belongs with his biological mother and father, not his mom’s female ex.

Kris Williams claimed that she was the one who raised the child with Rebekah Wilson, and she has full parental rights because she is listed on her ex-wife’s birth certificate. Oklahoma County District Judge Lynne McGuire rejected that claim and said that Oklahoma law detailing parentage trumps the state’s legalization of same-sex marriage.

“[The act] does not take into account same-sex marriage, and there is no presumption that the wife of the mother is automatically presumed the parent of a child born during the marriage,” McGuire wrote.

Williams, McGuire said, “was able to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that she acted in a parental role during her marriage” But ultimately “there was no evidence presented regarding the length of time it would take to establish a ‘meaningful emotional relationship with the child.’”

That meant giving Harlan Vaughn, the couple’s sperm supplier who is Now in a relationship Full parental rights are available to Wilson. McGuire claimed that Williams, who was neither legally adopted nor born the child, didn’t qualify for full parental rights. “mother–child relationship” under state law.

“The reality is that the law provides a legal remedy to those seeking parental rights. There was a legal remedy available to Williams. She knowingly chose not to pursue it,” McGuire wrote.  

It is becoming increasingly common to mix assisted reproduction laws with same-sex marriage law. a host of legal issues. This ruling is one of many examples of why enabling or protecting the deliberate creation motherless or fatherless kids is not only illegal, but also in violation. children’s natural rights.

Behind the Biological Battle

An article Wilson, 2021., she and Williams became legally married in their state so Williams could be listed as one of the child’s parents on the birth certificate.

“It was about three years into our relationship that we started talking about having a baby,” She wrote. “This conversation also included a ‘getting married’ conversation; not because of any traditional reason, but to establish Kris’ parentage on legal documentation.”

Reproductive technologies such as the creation of children using supplied sperm without strings attached are available. Morally, this is a problem They are able to take away the natural rights that children have to a father and mother to make room for the needs of adults. They also make Transcriptional reproduction of human existence

Yet to save time and money and ensure their child had access to his heritage and medical history, Williams and Wilson circumvented fertility facilities’ anonymous gametes stores, which often dangle dollars In exchange for their biological matter, they were asked to meet a young, cash-strapped couple. They also agreed to go out with a gay man that they had found via a paternity site. Together they decided Wilson would be officially entered the “known sperm donor agreement” Carry the baby, who was meant to be fatherless from birth.

Children born into homes without fathers