I saw this case, and I think I posted it the forum way back, but I have a great
fear that we are leaning into this case using racial discrimination. There is a
responsibility of any one doing business, and if you do business with public
you have the responsibility to be accountable to your actions. This is not
about making money out of this birth this is to send out a clear message that
running a fertility clinic require responsibility. And here is the danger in
running this institution this loosely, there is a whole whack of sperms out
there, and all those sperms are processed by the very same company to be
preserved before they are sent out to the fertility clinics, if these companies
turn out to be ran this irresponsibly, the next sperm to be put in your wife
will not be of a different race but of an Elephant or a Lion or a Horse. Then
what? For trust me every single animal we have out there has sperms harvested
every day, and they are all sent to the very same company that preserve human
sperms, how do we create diligence into these huge companies keeping track of
what is what? They need to be hit in the pocket where it hurts them to wake up.
These women should be paid.
There is a funny part too, can you imagine if these women were black and the
child ended up white? Wow !!!!!!!
EM
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Subject: {UAH} White Mom's Lawsuit Over Black Baby Exposes Ugly Truths About
White Privilege
White Mom's Lawsuit Over Black Baby Exposes Ugly Truths About White Privilege
<http://mic.com/profiles/152625/derrick-clifton> By
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What happens, exactly, when a white family that wants a white sperm donor gets
a half-black child instead?
In the case of a lesbian couple from Ohio, it means a
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-sperm-donor-lawsuit-met-20140930-story.html>
"wrongful birth" lawsuit against the sperm bank — two years after the fact.
The lawsuit has apparently been prompted by the "racial problems" the parents
are experiencing now that their child, 2-year-old Payton, is inching closer
toward learning about the cruel, racist realities of American society. But
there's another large issue sitting at the crux of what's otherwise a lawsuit
about medical malpractice.
Dealing with blackness has become burdensome and inconvenient for these two
white mothers — because the biracial baby completely upended their decades of
enjoying the spoils of white privilege
Jennifer Cramblett, a 36-year-old woman from Uniontown, Ohio, filed suit Sept.
29 against Chicago-area Midwest Sperm Bank because, according to the
allegations, the clinic artificially inseminated and impregnated her with the
wrong sperm. Cramblett told the
<http://www.today.com/health/white-mom-sues-sperm-bank-over-black-donor-2D80188932>
Today Show that they chose a "blond hair, blue-eyed individual" so the child
would closely resemble her partner.
Those dreams were dashed in April 2012, when Cramblett ordered more sperm from
the chosen donor, for a second child the couple planned on having. It was then
that Cramblett learned there may have been a mix-up. Not long after, it was
confirmed she had been impregnated with the wrong donor's sperm.
But the alleged medical malpractice is only part of what the lawsuit is
concerned with, as seen in the documents made public by the
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-pdf-read-the-lawsuit-against-downers-grove-sperm-bank-20140930-htmlstory.html>
Chicago Tribune. The filings paint a picture of a white couple's discomfort
with the admitted "steep learning curve" they have had to overcome in terms of
understanding black people, black culture, black experiences and even how to do
a black child's hair.
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Image Credit:
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-pdf-read-the-lawsuit-against-downers-grove-sperm-bank-20140930-htmlstory.html>
Chicago Tribune via Document Cloud
On page six of
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-pdf-read-the-lawsuit-against-downers-grove-sperm-bank-20140930-htmlstory.html>
the lawsuit, for example, Cramblett describes living daily with the "fears,
anxieties and uncertainty" about her child's future in their all-white,
racially intolerant town, as well as within a culturally insensitive family.
Cramblett acknowledges that she wasn't raised with a high degree of cultural
competence about African-American people. She now complains about having to
travel to a black neighborhood to get her daughter a decent haircut, where
she's "not overtly welcome" because Payton has "hair typical of an
African-American girl" and not the hair of the white child they wanted in the
first place.
Still, Cramblett maintains that race is not an issue, despite the considerable
amount of space taken up in court documents with respect to the racialized
elements of the case.
"I don't find any problems with having a mixed-race child as far as I am
concerned," Cramblett told
<http://www.today.com/health/white-mom-sues-sperm-bank-over-black-donor-2D80188932>
NBC News, tearfully noting that she loves her biracial child and wants her to
grow up in a more inclusive environment. "[Payton] will understand it wasn't
about, 'We didn't want you. We wanted a white baby.' That wasn't what it was
about."
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Image Credit: <http://www.today.com/video/today/56162190#56162190> Today Show
It wasn't until after the couple had had Payton, and embarked on the process of
raising her for two years, that they entertained the idea of moving to a more
racially inclusive environment, on the recommendation of Cramblett's therapists.
All of this, combined with the alleged malpractice, is why the couple is suing
for a to-be-determined amount of more than $50,000 for having suffered
"personal injuries, medical expense, pain, suffering, emotional distress and
other economic and non-economic issues, and will do so in the future."
Translation: They didn't ask for their comfortable, white privileged way of
life to be nearly eviscerated by blackness.
Fortunately, according to the lawsuit, Cramblett seems aware of research
showing that racist environments negatively affect overall well being for
non-white children. She told the Today Show that she wants to use the money to
underwrite expenses for the family's relocation to a more inclusive
environment.
But what if the child had been born white? Presumably, they would have had no
problem raising that child in an environment they admit is unwelcoming of
non-whites and not the most accepting of LGBT people.
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Image Credit: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRgA1bsu-a8> Julius Burke via
YouTube
There are many layers to this lawsuit. As Cramblett
<http://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/black-donors-sperm-mistakenly-sent-white-parents-lawsuit-n215801>
told NBC News, one can't make a mistake like this and tell two first-time
lesbian parents they should "just be happy" that they now have a baby,
especially since they can't reproduce on their own. And no clinic, let alone
any individual, should ever go against a woman's wish for what she wants to do
with her body. If she chose a particular sperm donor, that's who she should've
gotten. After all, Cramblett was a paying customer.
But that aspect has clearly become jumbled up with a white couple's inability
to cope with blackness, even within their own family. This confusion reveals a
sad truth many blacks have known for generations, and one that their child will
unfortunately learn when she gets older — that white people almost never have
to seriously interrogate how white privilege and institutional racism make many
social spaces violently unsafe for black people.
Until that is, they're forced to confront their privilege by circumstances out
of their control.
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Gwokto La'Kitgum
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