Friday, April 27, 2012

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.

1 comment:

  1. From Big Bad Jim:
    Ahhhhhhh....HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!!!!!
    Gotta love liberal social problems don'tchya? And of course, we all gotta stand around and bobble our heads and pretend regular people could have...'problems'...like this.

    Well I had better head out and do the chores before I commit a thought crime or somethin'...
    HA HA HA HA HA!!!

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