From the Associated Press
A woman has no parental rights over the twins she was raising with her lesbian partner - even though she is the childrens' genetic mother, an appeals court ruled.
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The court said though the genetic mother was a loving, at-home parent, "functioning as a parent does not bestow legal status as a parent."
"The legal system hasn't caught up with the modern-day facts of this case." Oh, my. When it does, it seems it's going to end up being a totally arbitrary judgment. Maybe that should tell us something, like that the whole situation is divorced from natural law?
Can this judge be impeached?
Can this judge be committed?
It's significant that the judge said an adoption decree would provide an 'objective' basis for resolving the case. After enough cases like this, most states will probably pass laws requiring the "parents" in these kinds of situations to conclude legal adoption arrangements formalizing the status of each towards the child, at the time of birth.
None of this would be happening in a sane culture, of course. But since the culture's off the rails, the legal system gets stuck working out the details.
Maranatha! Come, Lord Jesus!
Let me understand this - for a man, genetic contribution is decisive, as is raising a child that he thought was his, but wasn't (this actually happened in a CA case).
However, for a woman, neither genetic contribution nor functioning as a parent is worth anything.
Um-k-a-y.
I want to know who the "father" is. Eggs don't cut it alone, so to speak. There is a third person involved here.