White Lesbian Sues Fertility Clinic for Giving Her Sperm from Black Donor

 

The 21st century is exhausting:

A white Ohio mom is suing a sperm bank for sending her vials from a black donor, saying her biracial 2-year-old daughter will be stigmatized by her family and the “intolerant” town where they live and has to travel to get her hair done.

Untangling the grievances here is daunting:

  • Is the woman racist for objecting to a black sperm donor?
  • Is the sperm bank homophobic for providing poor service to a lesbian?
  • Should the town be razed for being racist, homophobic and offering inadequate sperm classification?
  • How exactly are the Koch brothers to blame?

Jennifer Cramblett thought she was being inseminated with a white man’s sperm in 2011 and only discovered after she was pregnant that the Midwest Sperm Bank sent the wrong batch, according to the lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court.

The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown, where 98 percent of the residents are white, court papers say.

Excuse me, but what prejudice does a biracial two-year-old face? Segregated sippy cups? Being sent to the back of the Big Wheel? As an sleep-deprived parent of former two-year-olds, one of the few redeeming features of that age is a complete lack of preexisting biases.

As an example of the difficulties the family faces, the suit cited hair care for the toddler.

This is Selma all over again.

”Getting a young daughter’s hair cut is not particularly stressful for most mothers, but to Jennifer it is not a routine matter, because Payton has hair typical of an African American girl,” the suit says. “To get a decent cut, Jennifer must travel to a black neighborhood, far from where she lives, where she is obviously different in appearance, and not overtly welcome.”

Eek — not a black neighborhood! The struggle is real. And, for the record, getting a two-year-old girl’s hair cut is a harrowing nightmare for every parent. My eardrums are just beginning to heal.

Cramlett’s lawyer, Thomas Intili, told NBC News his client “lives in an all-white community in eastern Ohio. She did not encounter any African-American people until she entered college. Not all her friends and family members are racially sensitive.”

No offense, mom, but it sounds like you’re the one freaking out about race, not your friends or family members — and certainly not your innocent child. No one else in Uniontown is suing over sperm being insufficiently Aryan.

The only person making race an issue is Cramlett. What do you think her child will think when she learns how disappointed mom was over her racial makeup? Not only that she sued over this “mistake,” but that she ran to the national media to publicize her anger over her daughter’s unacceptable melanin count?

Meanwhile, Cramlett’s hometown is bewildered at her allegations of intolerance. John Arnold, a town trustee, says the community accepts everyone. “We have a large Mennonite community and a lot of the members have adopted African-American children and babies from all over the world and those kids have been treated fine,” he said. Speaking of Cramlett and her partner, he adds, “they obviously have a beautiful, healthy 2-year-old.”

This guy sounds like a monster.

In this age of designer babies and in light of the sperm bank’s legitimate error, this ungrateful mom probably has a legal case. But Cramlett’s plan to make money by making her kid feel unloved and calling everyone in her family and community a racist makes her the true culprit in this story.

Image via NBC News.

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  1. Kim K. Inactive
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    @KimK

    …has hair typical of an African American girl,” the suit says.

    Typical hair? Because “they” all have the same hair, doncha know. And a white woman is genetically incapable of doing Black hair, I suppose.  Maybe if the mom had a few Black friends she could ask them for hair advice.

    She may have had some kind of case, but bringing up the hair issue is completely pathetic.

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  2. chorton65@comcast.net Inactive
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    @GoldwatersRevenge

    My how enlightened, how wise, how tolerent we have become. Now that we have opened Pandora’s Box nothing that the lib’s brave new world inflicts upon us should be a surprise. Designer babies just around the corner. Lib’s should remember “Beauty is only skin deep but stupid goes all the way through.”

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  3. Ben Inactive
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    @Ben

    There’s too much wrong with this article for me to handle–where to begin–The race debate? The multiple  levels of irony? The absurdity? (yes, both absurd and ironic!)

    Or, we can take a blind eye altogether to the identity politics and discuss the problem in becoming a society where we litigate for every accident.

    Either way, it’s overwhelming.  So, here’s a clip of Goldblum pounding the table.

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  4. Byron Horatio Inactive
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    @ByronHoratio

    I lived in Uniontown, Ohio throughout my college years and married there. It is one of the most charming towns in the state. This woman is an embarassment. Both of our children are a different race from us. I just can’t comprehend peoples’ obsession with color.

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  5. x Inactive
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    @CatoRand

    Yuck.  That poor child.

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  6. Julia PA Inactive
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    @JulesPA

    Ben:

    [scientists] So busy proving they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

    • #36
  7. user_82762 Inactive
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    @JamesGawron

    Jon,

    Will the deuce of Gay trump the ace of Black?  Raw grievance mongering doesn’t possess much finesse. Bye, Bye Eric Holder oblivion awaits.

    Would anyone but a moral moron really care?

    Regards,

    Jim

    • #37
  8. FreeWifiDuringSermon Inactive
    FreeWifiDuringSermon
    @FreeWifiDuringSermon

    Eustace C. Scrubb:If this suit is successful, could a straight couple sue if they were given sperm with the “gay gene”?

    Probably not, they’d just quietly abort the child because some actions are fine no matter what the motivation.

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  9. FreeWifiDuringSermon Inactive
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    @FreeWifiDuringSermon

    Kim K.:

    Typical hair? Because “they” all have the same hair, doncha know. And a white woman is genetically incapable of doing Black hair, I suppose. Maybe if the mom had a few Black friends she could ask them for hair advice.

    She may have had some kind of case, but bringing up the hair issue is completely pathetic.

    Maybe she could find a Jewish barber? Dealing with a Jew-fro is very similar to that of a Halfrican-American.

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  10. Matede Inactive
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    @MateDe

    Dear lord. If she’s so unhappy then give the child back to the clinic so they can put her up for adoption so I can adopt and raise that beautiful child as my own. At least then she’ll know she’s wanted.

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  11. Eeyore Member
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    @Eeyore

    James Gawron: Bye, Bye Eric Holder oblivion awaits.

    James, you poor, innocent soul. The very least Holder faces is an annual 6-to-7 figure university Presidency. At least as likely, he will become lead partner at a multi-million-dollar Grievance Industry law firm. He might even team up with his old pal BHO and create a near-Soros-level “Institute” or “Foundation” or whatever. They would leave $200 million scammer Al Gore like a pauper in the dust.

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  12. 3rd angle projection Member
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    Aye. This is what happens when one dabbles in sexual shenanigans with a vial. There is a better way but it would be imprudent to point out the obvious. That poor child. I hope her mom gets her head around that she is in fact her child and worthy of all her love, regardless of hair and skin color. As it is, it’s a child raising a child. I weep, yet again, for the future.

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  13. AIG Inactive
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    It doesn’t matter that she’s a lesbian, or the color of the child. The fact remains they gave her the wrong donor sperm. That should be enough for quite a hefty suit.

    Even if the child had been white, as long as it’s the wrong person’s sperm, it’s gross malpractice.

    She’s simply using the color of the child as a way to get more money out of them. Which she’s entitled to do, and any smart person would do in this case. That’s a really big screw up, and this sperm bank deserves it.

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  14. Susan in Seattle Member
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    Julia PA:Clearly this baby mama should be able to return the product of the erroneous sperm for a refund, including shipping…That’s what everyone does when the catalog item ordered is inaccurately processed.

    If I could, I’d text the crazy baby mama, and tell her to send me this darling-dollface child post-haste. My immediate family is biracial by marriage twice over, and we accept and adore all shades of melanin. There are plenty of people who would not be inconvenienced or disappointed with this little girl.

    sheesh.

    I wish I could “like” this about 1000 times.  Thanks, Julia: perfect.

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  15. EJHill Podcaster
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    May I guffaw? Uniontown is nestled in northern Stark County between Canton and Akron. The idea that anyone from this area would look twice at a biracial child is hilarious. The biggest danger this child will face is if a horse gets spooked and she gets run over by an Amish buggy.

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  16. 3rd angle projection Member
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    AIG:It doesn’t matter that she’s a lesbian, or the color of the child. The fact remains they gave her the wrong donor sperm. That should be enough for quite a hefty suit.

    Even if the child had been white, as long as it’s the wrong person’s sperm, it’s gross malpractice.

    She’s simply using the color of the child as a way to get more money out of them. Which she’s entitled to do, and any smart person would do in this case. That’s a really big screw up, and this sperm bank deserves it.

    If the child was white but she still got the wrong sperm how would she know she’d been done wrong?

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  17. x Inactive
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    @CatoRand

    AIG:It doesn’t matter that she’s a lesbian, or the color of the child. The fact remains they gave her the wrong donor sperm. That should be enough for quite a hefty suit.

    Even if the child had been white, as long as it’s the wrong person’s sperm, it’s gross malpractice.

    She’s simply using the color of the child as a way to get more money out of them. Which she’s entitled to do, and any smart person would do in this case. That’s a really big screw up, and this sperm bank deserves it.

    The legal problem with this contention (and I think it has other, bigger and more obvious problems) but the legal problem is that whether the suit is for breach of contact or a tort (like malpractice or negligence) she has to prove damages.  I’m sure some “expert” will come up with some BS way of doing that, but I fear it’s going to sound an a awful lot like “a mixed race baby is worth $X less than  a white baby” or what might be worse, “a mixed race baby is worth $X less than a white baby to this mother.”  In other words, I think it’s going to be real tough to make out a damages argument without asserting some kind of comparative worth of the babys.  That thought gives me the ickys, and I’ll wager there’s be one or more people on the jury who will feel the same way.

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  18. Israel P. Inactive
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    @IsraelP

    MikeHs:I’d like to hear her explanation about all this to Payton when he’s grown up.

    “You see son, it wasn’t you, but… but…. uh….”

    Payton, see how Mommy set you up for life by getting money and publicity out of these capitalist pigs.

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  19. 3rd angle projection Member
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    Israel P.:

    MikeHs:I’d like to hear her explanation about all this to Payton when he’s grown up.

    “You see son, it wasn’t you, but… but…. uh….”

    Payton, see how Mommy set you up for life by getting money and publicity out of these capitalist pigs.

    Not to be a nit picker but Payton is a little girl. And a human being. And will obviously have a challenging upbringing outside of daily norms. Just sayin’.

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  20. user_656019 Coolidge
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    @RayKujawa

    Julia PA:Clearly this baby mama should be able to return the product of the erroneous sperm for a refund, including shipping…That’s what everyone does when the catalog item ordered is inaccurately processed.

    If I could, I’d text the crazy baby mama, and tell her to send me this darling-dollface child post-haste. My immediate family is biracial by marriage twice over, and we accept and adore all shades of melanin. There are plenty of people who would not be inconvenienced or disappointed with this little girl.

    sheesh.

    That suggests and interesting idea. A sincere offer to the baby mama to take adopt the baby, maybe with an offer of enough money so she could start over. She would be able to start all over again, if she wanted. But I’m willing to bet the baby mama would not want to give her baby up for adoption. Either way, that should be the end of the issue. She either is going to recognize that she couldn’t handle giving her baby away and will thereafter be happy with her situation, or she’ll be happy because she helped make somebody else happy, learned a valuable lesson, and try again.

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  21. user_656019 Coolidge
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    @RayKujawa

    Children are not pets.

    I don’t think you have to be a psychiatrist to recognize that the worst thing for the baby would be for her mama to continue harping over this ‘injustice’ for the rest of the kid’s childhood years. Or maybe she might keep it going for a while and then drop it, but the kid might find out the truth how her mama feels years later and that will definitely cause hurt feelings. A baby is going to love her mama. Long after it’s a baby. And then for the kid someday to recognize that she herself is the cause of her mother’s unhappiness would very likely give the kid a complex. This has nothing to do with lesbianism. This could possibly happen with an infertile father in a marriage. Because of the durability of images and stories on the internet, this news and these words will persist for a long time, so it’s almost too late to avoid future damage, but for the kid’s sake, I strongly recommend the mama drop this subject and live with it. If she can’t do that, I don’t think she really has any business being the little girl’s mother.

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  22. user_656019 Coolidge
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    @RayKujawa

    Rocket City Dave:There’s one sure way to guarantee the right man is the father. That’s making babies the all natural way.

    If you insist on taking sperm sight unseen don’t be surprised when it belong to the wrong man.

    Shades of Young Frankenstein.

    Dr. Frahnkenshteen: “Would you mind telling me who’s brain I did put in?”

    Eye-gore: “Abby… Someone.”

    Dr.: “Abby who?”

    Eye-gore: “Abby … Normal.”

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  23. 3rd angle projection Member
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    Ray Kujawa:Children are not pets.

    Like. A lot. ‘Nuff said.

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  24. user_199279 Coolidge
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    @ChrisCampion

    This woman is proof that we have reached….The Apex Of Cheese.  We shall all be torn asunder as a result.  By feral sharks.

    I’m wondering if we couldn’t have put together a less grim and unintentionally hilarious parody of these modern-day cultural dilemmas, and how it might have been received, but the good news is that in today’s festival of self-immolation, we have legions of idiots creating parodies of themselves that highlight exactly what I assume to be true of most leftists:  That they are massive narcissists.

    The evidence is sitting in the arms of the disgruntled lesbian pictured above.  Her statements and actions are nauseating, but unsurprising.

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  25. virgil15marlow@yahoo.com Coolidge
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    @Manny

    If the agreement up front stipulated a white donor, I guess she has a case.  But I found your four grivances to be pretty funny.  Ah, children conceived the old fashion way, what a quaint notion.

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  26. ctlaw Coolidge
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    AIG: She’s simply using the color of the child as a way to get more money out of them. Which she’s entitled to do, and any smart person would do in this case.

    Any smart person whose interests are purely financial rather than the emotional welfare of the child.

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  27. Pony Convertible Inactive
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    @PonyConvertible

    My Dad told me many times.  If something is important to you, you have to do it yourself.   Off the top of my head I cannot thing of many things more important than the father of your child (or mother if you are male).  She chose to leave it to someone else.  All I can do is shake my head.

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  28. ctlaw Coolidge
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    Matede:Dear lord. If she’s so unhappy then give the child back to the clinic so they can put her up for adoption so I can adopt and raise that beautiful child as my own. At least then she’ll know she’s wanted.

    Michelle Bachmann might adopt her first. The left says Marcus Bachman is a closeted gay. The kid can’t be subjected to such an environment.

    Oh, wait…

    This is a smorgasbord of leftist hypocrisy.

    There is much schadenfreude in watching them finesse their apparent racism,  greed, narcissism…

    Yes, there were serious legal and emotional issues here. But it seems these women took it over the top and turned it into a joke with this apparent audition for a reality TV series.

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  29. Vance Richards Inactive
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    @VanceRichards

    I knew her father was going to be some creepy guy who touches himself for money, but I wanted him to be a creepy white guy who touches himself for money

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  30. kmtanner Inactive
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    This is funny:

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