Vivian Ryan LoCicero: Come to Daddy
Posted on 05/26/2005 9:45:58 PM PDT by Coleus
NEWARK, N.J. -- From the moment they held hands, pledged their love and signed documents in New York registering themselves as domestic partners, Kimberly Robinson and Jeanne LoCicero considered themselves a family.
And when they decided to have a baby through artificial insemination, the Essex County couple wanted the courts to consider them one as well.
On Wednesday, they got their wish. In a first-of-its kind ruling in New Jersey, a judge granted LoCicero full co-parenting rights to the baby Robinson bore, without having to go through lengthy adoption proceedings.
Thus, they will both be listed as parents on the birth certificate of little Vivian Ryan LoCicero, who was born on April 30, once the document is issued.
"We're thrilled," LoCicero, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, said Thursday. "We always felt like a family; now it's nice to know the court thinks we are one, too."
"We are relieved that we won't have the uncertainty and fear about whether our daughter would be protected if something happened to one of us," added Robinson.
Robinson and LoCicero registered in New York as domestic partners in 2003 and got married in Canada last summer. They bought a house together and decided they wanted to have a child together. Robinson was impregnated using sperm from an anonymous donor.
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Father of child
Baster, Turkey
ping to self for later pingout.
Blech.
This is about the dumbest thing I ever heard of.
Sure this isn't Massachusetts?
Thus, they will both be listed as parents on the birth certificate of little Vivian Ryan LoCicero, who was born on April 30, once the document is issued.
Isn't this just the sweetest thing?
Sick, perverted ruling.
Vivian Ryan LoCicero: Come to Daddy
Baster, Turkey
My first child was born with the help of science.
Be respectful. The fact that a lesbian couple did this and somehow got it legalized shouldn't indict the millions of hetero couples who may have never had children w/out this procedure.
poor child.
Yeah, all children who have scientific help for conception don't deserve to live.
Put anything you like on the birth certificate you selfish narcissistic libs. It's ALL ABOUT YOU. The fact you are screwing up a kid forever really doesn't enter into it does it? That's beside the point isn't it. Let's change right and wrong and all of society to fit our immature wants and needs.
grumble....grumble.... Sorry, when selfishness and stupidity reign it gets my Irish up.
No mention of the gender of the baby? I'm not going to take the name "Vivian" at face value with these types.
What's the point?
Yeah, all children who have scientific help for conception don't deserve to live. >>>
Are you for real? Where did I say that? Turkey basting was made for just that, basting turkeys.
This is a perfect example of what is wrong with the courts.
This couple didn't try to get legislation passed. No, they simply went to a nitwit judge, who promptly decreeed one of these two women to be the man, I guess. God only knows who's name went on the certificate as "Father", all jokes aside.
The court should have tossed the case without so much as a hearing. The courts should not be facilitators for this kind of errant nonsense.
Get a grip.
Who indicted millions of heteros?
This has nothing to do with heteros, hence my comment in jest.
This is child exploitation.
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