[papertyger]

The court should have tossed the case without so much as a hearing.

Not so sure about that John. They may have designed it to be a real quandry.

I dated a girl in college that went to the dark side. Her girlfriend gave the ovum to be fertilized and the one I knew had them implanted.

It ain't pretty, but who do you disenfranchise?

[John Valentine]

It ain't pretty, but who do you disenfranchise? Yeah, I agree, but that's not the issue here. A Birth Certificate is a record of the blood parentage of a child, not a feel-good award for the baby's scrapbook. The names recorded on the birth certificate need to be the names of the two people who contributed their DNA to create the child, and no one else.

[John Valentine]

It ain't pretty, but who do you disenfranchise?

Yeah, I agree, but that's not the issue here. A Birth Certificate is a record of the blood parentage of a child, not a feel-good award for the baby's scrapbook. The names recorded on the birth certificate need to be the names of the two people who contributed their DNA to create the child, and no one else.