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A sperm or egg donor does not have parental rights or obligations unless the parties agreed beforehand that he or she would be a parent, state appeals courts in California and Washington recently ruled. The two separate cases involved an egg donor who requested parental rights and a sperm donor who contested parental obligations.
"Both courts were attempting to add clarity to what can be ambiguous contexts," said Susan Crockin, an attorney and author in the field of reproductive technology law in Newton, Massachusetts. To do so, they asked: When the children were conceived, whom did the parties intend to be parents?
In California, K.M. donated eggs to her lesbian partner, E.G., who gave birth to twin girls. The couple raised the children together for five years. However, only E.G. was...
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