>> The lack of respect for basic law from some conservatives is a bit appalling <<
When the civil law violates the natural law, then civil disobedience is justified. If Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi can do it, then so can conservatives.
Natural law is already stretched in this case, given that the father of the child is a turkey baster.
It is best when a child is with biological parents. In this case, the child has no chance of being with her father, who was anonymous.
It certainly wasn’t best for the child to be brought into the world in a gay relationship, but that’s what the mother did to the daughter, and two women were mothers to the child for several years before the relationship ended.
The mother is single, so the child has no father-figure no matter which woman she is with.
Civil Disobedience as practiced by King and Gandhi involved breaking laws that were unjust openly and accepting the punishment for breaking those laws.
If the woman was sitting in her home, defying the order and saying that if they wanted the other woman to see her child, they would have to send police to take the child, that would be “Civil Disobedience”.