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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This coupled with the finding that a sperm-bank doner may be liable for child support tells me that most of the judiciary is absolutely out of it's collective mind
most of the judiciary is absolutely out of it's collective mind >>
they are in New Jersey.
Well, if you're worried about being factually correct, that was lost years and years ago. It's the law in a good many states that the husband of the mother's name automatically goes on the birth certificate, regardless of biological parentage. Easy way to become a parent without the hassles of adoption is for a man to marry a woman who's carrying a child out of wedlock.
Hate to break it to you, but it was never a mystical act. It was always the act of 1 sperm reaching 1 egg and fertilizing it. All the science in the world hasn't changed that one bit. It's still one sperm fertilizing one egg, same as it always was. Humping and grunting doesn't make for good mysticism anyway.
That's downright nutty.
That hasn't been the case for well over 20 years now.
The Creator placed us above animals in dignity by creating us in His own image.
Apparently you have no ambition to rise to that great dignity.
While we have the option to reject that dignity, some choose the easy (and perhaps at times seemingly exciting or fun) yet amazingly shallow life of simply a human animal.
How tragic.
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