Posted on 07/16/2004 8:12:23 PM PDT by Libloather
Moms the word - Lesbian couple first on birth certificate
By Casey Ross
Friday, July 16, 2004
In a milestone for same-sex parents, a married lesbian couple from Jamaica Plain is believed to be the first homosexual pair recognized as parents on their child's birth certificate.
Cora Roelofs and Liz Steinhauser are named as mother and ``second parent'' on a certificate issued by the town of Wellesley and approved by the state Department of Public Health.
``We hope people realize this is both justice and a joy, and we hope they support our family,'' said Roelofs, who gave birth June 4 to a boy who was conceived through artificial insemination. The birth certificate was issued June 29.
The milestone became possible when same-sex couples gained the right to marry in Massachusetts on May 17. Under state law, married couples that have a child through artifical insemination are automatically recognized as parents.
Officials with the state Department of Public Health said yesterday no final decisions have been made on whether to change the wording on birth certificates, which currently have spaces for a mother and father.
Gay rights advocates said they know of a few same-sex parents that are both listed on a birth certificate, but Roelofs and Steinhauser, who were married June 3 and gave birth the next day, are believed to be the first.
Opponents to gay marriage said legally recognizing same-sex couples as parents defies biology and weakens traditional families. ``From the very moment this child comes into the world he is marked as being part of some kind of new social order,'' said Kris Mineau, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute.
Roelofs and Steinhauser said yesterday that denying them recognition as legal parents is rooted in discrimination that was correctly labled as such in the court decision legalizing gay marriage.
``The prejudice has been recognized and we are now moving in the direction of justice,'' Steinhauser said.
How did they get the two eggs to merge?
Actually, the direction of insanity.
Insider trading?
taxpayers will pay the price for this child's mental problems in the future.
How about starting referendums/legislation to make it only legal for one mother and one father. Such lesbians my be sol but the child will be far better off.
when these homosexuals seperate, the non mother will seek to use her biological impossibility to avoid child support.
I smell brimstone.
longtermmemmory wrote:
when these homosexuals seperate, the non mother will seek to use her biological impossibility to avoid child support.
Lets se 2 Senators , 1 a drunken Killer, the other a confessed war criminal. Nawney Fwank, a homosexual who ran a gay prostitution ring out of his basement. Gay marriage, What a State,
I see only injustice here - for a boy to grow up without a father. Sad.
"Justice"
This boy had no say in being deprived of his biological father.
Nobody asked the kid what he would like.
But someday he'll do the asking.
"Mommy 1 and Mommy 2, where's my Daddy?"
"Well son, Daddy 1 and Daddy 2 are in San Francisco".
When wrong become right and right becomes wrong....tick ....tick .....tick.......
I would be upset and angry if I learned I was an artificial insemination or donated egg baby, period. I probably wouldn't care so much if I were adopted into the homosexual situation if I were in many foster homes and had noone. I suppose a lesbian family would be better than nothing.
"How did they get the two eggs to merge?"
They used a gender-blender.
I'll go stand in the corner now...
I believe there was a case in Sweden just like that. So they went back to the sperm donor who thought he was helping out two committed and loving women.
A lie! Another frickin' lie. That's all they have. Lies amd more lies. A birth certificate with two "mommies"? Lies and more lies and now they are telling children lies. These people don't just need to be "voted out"! They need to die!
My wife and I are adoptive parents. It is a tough row to hoe. My son will be thiry-three in November. The love between us is of course remarkable. But he still wonders why..why he was adopted. Every parent of an adopted child goes through this. You can't imagine the hurt and tears. And the child's pain.
So now we want to add Two Mommies? They care nothing about children. They care only about their lack of respect for morals and the wierd procivity to believe that rubbing two viginas together, or docking two penises together will somehow produce children. The stupidity is amazing!
I've told everyone I know, if you can really vote for a democrat, you are too stupid to live. Your life ain't worth mine.
Just when I think it be impossible for the world to get crazier, I read a story like this one. Put aside the issue of homosexuality and see that what is going on here is yet another erasure of objective truth. It is a biological fact that every human being results from the union (in the body or in the test tube) of a man and a woman. Birth certificates are supposed to record the objective FACT of who those two people are. Friends of mine who have legally adopted children do not expect these children's birth certificates to be changed post-adoption.
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