I got this from another list. Source: Herald Sun
I didn�t think there was such high level of Homosexual
Discrimination in Sweden - as the last paragraphs seem
to imply.
Alberto Monteiro
Sperm donor is legal dad: court
>From AP
01feb02
STOCKHOLM: A court has ruled a 35-year-old Swedish man who
privately donated his sperm to a lesbian couple is the legal
father of the three children and must support them financially.
Anna Bjurling, the mother of the children - aged 10, seven and
five - asked Igor Lehnberg to pay child support after the
relationship with her partner ended last year.
A county administrative court yesterday ruled in her favour and
ordered Lehnberg to pay child support of $US280 ($A555) a month.
Lehnberg challenged the decision by arguing in district court
that he wasn't the legal father. But the court said a document
Lehnberg had signed, stating that he was the biological father,
was legally binding.
Lehnberg claimed he signed the document only so the children
would know their origin, not to accept any responsibility for
them.
Anne Norberg, a spokeswoman for the Lehnberg's lawyer, said he
would appeal against the verdict.
Swedish law gives same-sex couples in a legal union most of the
same rights and obligations as married couples, but they are not
allowed to adopt children or undergo artificial insemination.
It's not clear where Bjurling's insemination, which would have
been illegal in Sweden, was done.
Lehnberg told the district court in Oerebro, 145 km west of
Stockholm that his girlfriend at the time persuaded him to donate
sperm to the lesbian couple in 1991.
He only had limited contact with the children, he said, and it
was agreed that the couple would handle all parental
responsibilities.
