Kansas Supreme Court Rules Against Sperm Donor in Parental Rights Case

The Kansas City Star reported yesterday that the Kansas Supreme Court has ruled against a sperm donor who had challenged that state’s law prohibiting sperm donors from exercising parental rights in the absence of a written agreement between the donor and the birth mother. This case, about which I have posted previously, has been widely [...]

Pennsylvania Superior Court Holds Sperm Donor Responsible for Child Support to Lesbian Couple

Many thanks to Dustin Jones for the following post on his blog, All Things Pennsylvania Family Law, concerning what would appear to be a very, very significant ruling from the Pennsylvania Superior Court, our state’s intermediate appellate court. As soon as I can obatain a copy of the court’s opinion, I will post it here. [...]

The Ethics of Designer Babies

With the advance of medical and reproductive technologies, the thorny question has arisen, and is hotly debated, as to when, or even whether, it is ethically permissible for physicians to enable prospective parents to choose the sex of their bay. The New York Times this week ran a very interesting essay bhy Denise Grady, in [...]