Dear white woman suing for "accidentally" getting the sperm donation of a black man: please grow the fuck up.
And, yes, maybe your town is intolerant and you feel you have to move because of this. I honestly don't feel much sympathy; if you live in a bigoted town that doesn't tolerate mixed-race children, either you should have moved well before then, or else, well, yeah, deal with having decided to stay in a town full of bigots.
(Okay, yeah, not everyone can afford to move from the town they live in. And if that's the case, that's unfortunate. I still don't think that rises to the level of "filing a law suit.")
White woman sues sperm bank—again—after getting black man’s sperm
Plaintiff says she’s not prepared for the challenge of “transracial parenting.”
They at least owe her all the costs of moving (which can be high in terms of changing jobs, longer commute, distance from friends…), if that’s what she chooses to do. If they are unwilling to pay, how else can she proceed if not by a law suit?
I don't know. For an "oops" that's a pretty big oops that has long-lasting ramifications and additional expenses that may not have been an issue had they been competent at their job.I suppose you could argue the refund of the cost of the procedure should be enough, but it sounds like she's not just going to have to change towns, but abandon major parts of her family.
I can't say that suing is what I would do, but then my circumstances are very different than hers. I am not entirely unsympathetic.
Part of me has sympathy, but part of me thinks, unsympathetically, "So you thought it was okay to put up with intolerant family members and neighbors as long as that intolerance wasn't directed at you?"
She didn't dump the child in an alley, doesn't mention adoption, and reportedly doesn't have any issues with caring for her child. Big pluses in my book and I agree that this Ooops! is going to affect both her and the child for a very long time. That's a major mistake on the company's part and they get paid enough for those procedures that it's reasonable to assume they know what they're doing.
This probably about to be a big legal mess, with defense attorneys asking why she didn't abort the baby if she knew about the race issue at 5 months, saying refusing an abortion was basically accepting the responsibility of trans-racial parenting.
As a parent of a multi-racial child, I can honestly say that if any of my friends or family have a problem with my kid's ancestry, they are immediately encouraged to GTFO of our lives. And the horse they rode in on, if you get me.
As to the mother here, genetics are largely a crapshoot, even when you take steps not to make them be. When you choose to conceive, you need to step up.
As for the company involved, once is a mistake, twice is a pattern, and 3 times is enemy action.