Divorcing lesbians ordered to share frozen sperm

Bizarre -- but predictable enough -- story today from Canada's lala-land, British Columbia. According to Canadian Press, a "relationship breakdown" led to a court battle between two ladies who wear sensible shoes. The big question? Who gets the sperm they bought together from a US sperm bank. [Does the Mann Act come into this? Ed.]

The odd couple started a family using the sperm, possibly with the aid of a turkey baster. Now that they're splitting up, one refused the other's request to use the remaining spermcicles to start a new fatherless family with her new, err, partner.

Justice Loryl Russell said in her ruling that the central question was whether sperm is property. She noted that everyone -- both women and the sperm bank -- had treated the sperm as a commodity to be used for their benefit (and, in the case of the bank, profit). And she found case law -- a decision by Justice Solomon perhaps -- to support dividing it just like any other disputed item from a collapsed partnership. So ordered.

Walt wonders if anyone else thinks that the whole issue (no pun intended) is not a bit... how shall we say... unnatural. What happened to old method of one man planting his seed in one woman to produce a child which would then have two parents... one male and one female. See Genesis 1:27.