Posted on 07/16/2007 12:41:33 AM PDT by neverdem
SOMETIMES when the earth shudders it doesn’t make a sound. That’s what happened in Harrisburg, Pa., recently.
On April 30, a state Superior Court panel ruled that a child can have three legal parents. The case, Jacob v. Shultz-Jacob, involved two lesbians who were the legal co-parents of two children conceived with sperm donated by a friend. The panel held that the sperm donor and both women were all liable for child support. Arthur S. Leonard, a professor at New York Law School, observed, “I’m unaware of any other state appellate court that has found that a child has, simultaneously, three adults who are financially obligated to the child’s support and are also entitled to visitation.”
The case follows a similar decision handed down by a provincial court in Ontario in January. In what appeared to be the first such ruling in any Western nation, the court ruled that a boy can legally have three parents. In that case the biological mother and father had parental rights and wished for the biological mother’s lesbian partner, who functions as the boy’s second mother, to have such rights as well.
The idea of assigning children three legal parents is not limited to North America. In 2005, expert commissions in Australia and New Zealand proposed that sperm or egg donors be allowed to “opt in” as a child’s third parent. That same year, scientists in Britain received state permission to create an embryo from the DNA of three adults, raising the real possibility that they all could be granted equal legal claims to the child if the embryo developed to term.
Astonishingly, few legal experts, politicians or social commentators have considered the enormous risks these rulings and proposals pose for children. Those who have noticed tend to say they are nothing new, because...
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Who cares? This isn't about the children, it's about supposed adults trying to legitimize their sexual status.
That's all that's about, and anyone who says otherwise is full of it.
I don't like the gaybashing that goes on here sometimes, but you've gotta call a spade a spade--all this is about is an attempt to use the courts to FORCE people to ACCEPT an idea--or else.
People can do whatever the heck they like, I don't care one bit. But using children as political tools is really nauseating.
It’s poor law.
It's the oldest Democrat gimmick in the book - - "But what about the children??"
Not in this case. Usually, you'd be right, but here it's "What about the gay adults???"
Whenever a man is involved it is his fault and he must pay. That's nothing new.
Till Bush came along. Remember No ChIld Left Behind and how it was sold to the country?
I’m sure “studies show” that children who discover they were artificially created from the DNA of 3 people and who are raised by narcissistic homosexuals grow up JUST as happy and well adjusted as any other children
sarc
I’ve been afraid of this for a a while now.........
Actually, a kid can have five people with legal claim to him: The sperm donor, the egg donor, the woman who carries the baby, and the two adults who raise the child after birth.
Happiness and adjustment are overrated. Give me neurotic productivity and genius bordering on madness anyday. Would Glenn Beck be the man he is if he were happy and well adjusted?
Sow the wind....reap the whirlwind!
You mean he's not?
HE’S A MAD GENIUS...HE’S RIDDLED WITH ADD.
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