Woman uses DNA test, finds sperm donor – and pays a "devastating" price

www.cbsnews.com ^ | January 31, 2019, 7:37 AM

[alternatives?]

Good summary.

[mbarker12474]

How do you figure he walked away -

He wacked off into a tube.
Handed tube to clinician.
Walked away.

Woman impregnated with HIS sperm.
Child born with HIS DNA.
He's not there. He has abandoned woman, mother, and child. He walked away.

He should be taken out behind the clinic and shot.

Fathers who abandon their children should be taken out and shot.

Yes, other parties (including the state!) are involved.

[The Pack Knight]

According to the article, all she did was check boxes on a website...............Now, the contract was with ‘her’ but not her child. She has wiggle room...............

Not sure what your point is. A contract formed by checking boxes on a website is just as binding as one signed on physical paper, and in both circumstances the party signing is charged with knowledge of all the written terms whether she read them or not.

And I'm not sure what wiggle room she has from the fact that the contract was with her and not her child. Her child didn't breach the contract, she did. Her child isn't being deprived of the other sperm, she is. Her child has never had any rights in the now-withheld sperm, and thus has suffered no legal injury nor been deprived of any contractual benefit to which she was ever entitled.

[Bulwyf]

I’m ok with that too.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

The Pack Knight:" But deliberately conceiving children without a father is an abuse of medical science
and of the children themselves, and she should be prepared to accept the consequences."

So, if she is interested in finding what medical conditions exist with the father, she might be able through the donor bank.
However, I feel that she is looking for "entitlements", which according to Family court is 27% of gross, before taxes.

[caseinpoint]

Ok, my sister-in-law has been pushing for my husband to get a genetic test. Hubby is resisting as he hates the idea of his personal information available to a commercial company. I fully agree with him on this. That said, I have no experience with these companies. I can understand someone wanting to know their genetic makeup but do the companies disclose actual names of people who closely match the sample?

[Engedi]

They refunded her the money for the vials. She signed a contract to not contact donor. She violated the contract

[RegulatorCountry]

Just a ploy. She’s angling to ID the donor to sue him for child support and with family court being the feminist Star Chamber that it is, she’ll get it too.

[The Pack Knight]

Women like this...I think she’s looking for a way to make the donor financially accountable as the biological father. It’s only about the paycheck.

That may be possible depending on the state. It has happened in the case of surrogacy: A couple years ago, there was a surrogate in Pennsylvania, which does not have specific laws on surrogacy, who decided to keep the child AND sue the father for child support. And the court awarded child support.

That's why the one surrogacy agreement I've seen prohibited the surrogate from leaving Texas after a certain point of gestation, in order to ensure that the child was born in Texas. This is because Texas has a very clear statute on the subject, and as long as there is proper agreement validated by a court, there will be no question as to the legal parentage of the child.

That said, I think more states have strong laws on sperm donorship than they do on surrogate mothers.

[deport]

..now Im dating myself!

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Are you and yourself having fun on your dates?

[Stanwood_Dave]

I know what I'm typing here will be viewed as outrageous, but in simple terms, it's the truth.

"Where is the FATHER.....not the sperm donor, but the FATHER?"

Just go to any supermarket, go to the "cooking section," look for a Turkey Baster / FATHER.

[Dilbert San Diego]

You are getting into another issue, the issue of whether sperm donation and sperm banks should be banned.

[goodnesswins]

The day my MIL told me my SIL (her divorced daughter) did this (used a sperm donor because she wanted another baby)I burst into tears. To bring a child purposely into this world without a Father is evil in my mind.

[Hot Tabasco]

Here’s another thought, maybe her real reason to find the donor was to make a connection and guilt trip the guy into financially supporting the child.......

[Chickensoup]

actually I think it is because there is a more traditional outlook about families in Europe and they understand that one should know both parents if possible. They may not marry but they do involve both parents.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Yep. Terrible judgment from the get go

This woman is all about herself, and using the child as a prop

[MrEdd]

You utterly fail to understand the underlying point.

Male = bad oppressor
Woman = victim of toxic masculinity.

Even on this site that worldview has its fanatic proponents.

[bgill]

"All of us, thousands of us, have made these connections," Kramer said. "It's a right for everybody to know the truth about their own DNA, their own background, their relatives and their medical histories."

No, they do not have that right. Especially when they sign a contract. The donor has a right to remain anonymous.

No where in there is there any mention of a daddy. Why is that? Smells like a pink pussy hat wearing loony who doesn't need a man in her life... well, except for his sperm.

[Robert357]

What a nothing story! Women gets sperm from sperm donor. Woman wants to find out more about the donor. Source of sperm doesn't want to talk to her, company that collected the sperm has to honor its pledge of confidentiality.

Because of her actions they don't want her to have any future children via the sperm bank.

Woman is upset. Claims that taking back unused sperm is theft of her unborn babies. Kind of melodramatic.

Gosh who would have thought that could happen. Woman now complains to national media.

This is a stupid story about “nothing.”

[Red Badger]

Jodie Foster type.....................