The issue is whether the mother has any legal case against the the sperm bank for causing her to have a baby with dna that she did not consent to having put into her body. The analogies contain the same underlying issues relevant to any legal case, in contrast to you vacuous moral stance that parents are either responsible for the kids or not, which has zero logical relevance to anything about the legal case. Whether the mothers argument about the race of the baby are valid is superfluous to the liability of the sperm bank because they would be just as liable if the child was the same race as the dna that they had purchased, because it would still be different in millions of ways from that dna and thus from the child they planned to have.
So, if you would support compensation to the people in my hypothetical analogous situations, then your objection to support for this mother is purely irrational emotion and based on nothing of objective or legal relevance to the facts of the case.
that is all fine and dandy but it seems to be argued differently...
the article doesn't say that the lawsuit mentions DNA
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-sperm-donor-lawsuit-met-20140930-story.html
"On August 21, 2012, Jennifer gave birth to Payton, a beautiful, obviously mixed-race baby girl," the lawsuit states. "Jennifer bonded with Payton easily and she and Amanda love her very much. Even so, Jennifer lives each day with fears, anxieties and uncertainty about her future and Payton's future."
Raising a mixed-race daughter has been stressful in Cramblett and Zinkon's small, all-white community, according to the suit.
after reading the article yet again.
The lawsuit mentions sperm and error but that in and of itself might not be enough to sue for thus the racism is mentioned in the lawsuit.
maybe they don't want to go down the road that the child has something wrong with it...
For starters, I cannot fathom that this couple would refer to their child as an "it" as in "the child has something wrong with it". The character of their child not being in question here. What is in question is whether this couple would have planned and chosen from the get go to raise a bi racial daughter or son in a geographical area with an overwhelming majority of Caucasian demographics versus demographics reflecting an evenhanded presence of multi racial demographics. I have pointed to figures earlier reflecting the reality of an extreme minority of residents of Black ethnicity origin versus an overwhelming majority of residents of Caucasian ethnicity.
To add the other motives leading this couple's choice to specifically request a Caucasian sperm donor, motives Shadowy Man covered earlier.
A couple of thoughts related to "sensitivity" here, a term Shadowy Man used earlier when it comes to how we approach that case :
1) Sensitivity towards the reality that this bi racial child is bound to "stick out like a sore thumb" in a community with an overwhelming majority of people of Caucasian ethnicity. To include how she will fare through years of schooling and again in an environment with an overwhelming majority of Caucasian children. Some of us who actually raised children are well aware of how children interact with each other within their school environment. How the child who is different from everyone else is often subjected to bully-ism, mockeries and treated as an outcast.
2) Sensitivity towards the reality that the child's DISTINCT ethnic difference from the parents is inevitably bound to prompt questions from nosy individuals rather than a Caucasian child who would be ethnically compatible with both bio mom and her spouse. Let alone and again, the child's school peers so often commenting to her about her being ethnically different from the adults who raise her. Surely, her parents would attend school events and PTA meetings.
3) Sensitivity towards the reality that bio mom and her spouse's current location of residency does not strike me as a cosmopolitan community. Cosmopolitan indicating the ongoing import and flow of individuals of various ethnicity and different cultural profiles. As I noted earlier, there was a vast difference of interactions between children of military families stationed in Camden County, SE Georgia and those who were local children, when it came to any degree of acceptance of the bi racial adopted daughter of my close neighbors. Military family children having benefited of exposure to a variety of different locations and people and for some already having been well traveled via overseas residency wherever US military personnel is stationed.
It appears you do not seem to be aware of or recognize the above as a valid reason for this couple to engage a lawsuit which directly connects the error committed by the bank sperm to the possible consequences their daughter will have to bear with, while taking into account the realities I have detailed above.
