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KS: Sperm donor ordered by state to pay child support (to separated lesbian couple on assistance)
Mercury News ^ | 1/2/13 | Associated Press

Posted on 01/02/2013 11:10:42 AM PST by NormsRevenge

TOPEKA, Kan. -- A sperm donor in Kansas is fighting a state effort to force him to pay child support for a child conceived through artificial insemination by a lesbian couple.

William Marotta, 46, of Topeka said he is "a little scared about where this is going to go, primarily for financial reasons," The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/132b7Ji) reported Monday.

When he donated sperm to Angela Bauer and Jennifer Schreiner in 2009, Marotta relinquished all parental rights, as well as financial responsibility for the child. When Bauer and Schreiner filed for state assistance this year, the state demanded the donor's name so it could collect child support for the girl, now 3. Bauer and Schreiner broke up in 2010 but co-parent their eight children, who range in age from 3 months to 25 years.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: Kansas; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: childsupport; contractlaw; dcfcriminals; kansas; lesbiancouple; parentlarights; samesexadoption; savethemales; spermdonor
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looks like societal 'advancement' has costs and unintended consequences sometimes. a lesson to be learned in here somewhere.
1 posted on 01/02/2013 11:10:50 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Nelson

Cynical laugh

Ha, ha


2 posted on 01/02/2013 11:15:35 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Bread and Circuses; Everyone to the Coliseum!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Idiots will never learn.


3 posted on 01/02/2013 11:15:35 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Are there any sperm doners here? What would motivate you to do that?


4 posted on 01/02/2013 11:16:08 AM PST by DManA
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To: NormsRevenge

“papers please”


5 posted on 01/02/2013 11:16:51 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: NormsRevenge

Good way to end sperm donation to gay couples.

SnakeDoc


6 posted on 01/02/2013 11:16:53 AM PST by SnakeDoctor (Texas survived one Obama term, and we'll survive another. The rest of you are screwed.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Don’t do stupid things.


7 posted on 01/02/2013 11:20:21 AM PST by Greystoke
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To: NormsRevenge

OK, so it’s only fair that the sperm donors who spawned the current crop of welfare tykes be required to pay up as well! Sounds like a plan, doesn’t it?


8 posted on 01/02/2013 11:20:47 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: NormsRevenge
Bwahahahahaha!!!

Who here could not see this crap coming? Anyone? Please, ANYONE??

FMCDH(BITS)

9 posted on 01/02/2013 11:23:38 AM PST by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: JimRed

Ohh, what a tangled web we weave when at first ....


10 posted on 01/02/2013 11:24:01 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: JimRed

They make ruling after ruling against them but no income means nothing to garnish.


11 posted on 01/02/2013 11:24:44 AM PST by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Ha, Ha!

Teach Your Children Well:

David Crosby Has Mixed Feelings About Donating Sperm Again

"Rocker David Crosby was disappointed when he learned Melissa Etheridge and her lesbian lover Julie Cypher were splitting up because he donated sperm to help them conceive two children. Crosby wanted to help his friends become parents, and the couple's son Beckett was born in 1998, followed by daughter Bailey in 2000.

He famously posed with Etheridge, Cypher and their children for a Rolling Stone cover, where the world discovered Crosby's role in the conception. To his dismay, Etheridge and Cypher decided to split up seven months later and now share custody of the two children. Cypher is married to Matthew Hale while Etheridge is married to actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, who recently gave birth to twins using an anonymous sperm donor.

12 posted on 01/02/2013 11:26:19 AM PST by blam
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To: NormsRevenge
When he donated sperm to Angela Bauer and Jennifer Schreiner in 2009, Marotta relinquished all parental rights, as well as financial responsibility for the child. When Bauer and Schreiner filed for state assistance this year, the state demanded the donor's name so it could collect child support for the girl...

Was there a contract?

Does this mean that the "state" can summarily decide which contracts it wishes to honor, and which contracts it can ignore to suit its needs at the moment?

-PJ

13 posted on 01/02/2013 11:29:52 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: NormsRevenge

There’s an old army saying . . .


14 posted on 01/02/2013 11:33:49 AM PST by YHAOS
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To: Political Junkie Too

Fatherhood is determined via biology. What, you hate science?


15 posted on 01/02/2013 11:34:01 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: SnakeDoctor
Good way to end sperm donation to gay couples.

This could encourage some sperm donors to want to make direct deposits. -tom

16 posted on 01/02/2013 11:40:38 AM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: Political Junkie Too

The State wants money and doesn’t care who pays as long as SOMEONE pays. There have been instances where men have been forced to pay child support for children their wives or girlfriends conceived with other men!


17 posted on 01/02/2013 11:45:37 AM PST by Little Ray (Waiting for the return of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.)
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To: Capt. Tom

No man wants to direct deposit an actual lesbian. They never look like ‘experimenting’ slumber-party cheerleaders you’re imagining.

SnakeDoc


18 posted on 01/02/2013 11:45:44 AM PST by SnakeDoctor (Come and take it.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Help a gay couple.

Get screwed over.


19 posted on 01/02/2013 11:47:22 AM PST by Gasshog (Welcome to the United States of Stupidos!)
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To: Political Junkie Too

I believe any contract they created was between the three “adults” involved. When the one adult who kept the child decided the citizens of the state needed to pay for the child’s upbringing, the state’s rules for providing assistance came into play.

The state’s citizens were never consulted when they made their original arrangement. If they truly wanted to keep their little private arrangement, the two mommies should be providing for the child not the citizens of the state.


20 posted on 01/02/2013 11:47:32 AM PST by Waryone
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