Woman sues sperm bank because she was inseminated with by wrong donor!

[marylander1940]

Woman sues sperm bank because she was inseminated with by wrong donor.

 

An Ohio woman and her partner have sued a Chicago-area sperm bank after she became pregnant with sperm donated by a black man instead of a white man as she'd intended.

 

Jennifer Cramblett was five months pregnant and happy with her life in April 2012. She and her partner had married months earlier in New York, and within days of their nuptials she had become pregnant with donor sperm at a fertility clinic in Canton.

 

Cramblett, 36, and her partner, Amanda Zinkon, 29, were so elated that they called Midwest Sperm Bank LLC outside Chicago to reserve sperm from the same donor in the hope that Zinkon would someday also have a child.

 

But that's when Cramblett received some disturbing news, says a lawsuit filed Monday against Midwest Sperm Bank in Cook County, Illinois. She learned from an employee at the sperm bank that she had been inseminated with sperm from No. 330, a black donor, and not No. 380, a white donor she and Zinkon, who are white, had chosen.

 

 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-sperm-donor-lawsuit-met-20140930-story.html

 

She says even getting a haircut for her mix race daughter is difficult in her all white community.

[Mark Gordon]

Did the lab screw up? Yes.

 

Would she have moved into a town of 2,800 in a rust belt state that does not recognize her same sex marriage if she were truly all that concerned about not fitting in? No.

[+ Chris Eisenhower]

In all honesty, that story is probably more damaging to her child than any of the things she actually mentioned as concerns. It might as well have the headline: "YOU WERE A MISTAKE."

 

And it's not exactly the best idea that if you're worried about being alienated in a small town because you have a mixed-race child to imply that all your neighbors are probably racist.

[bigvalboy]

In all honesty, that story is probably more damaging to her child than any of the things she actually mentioned as concerns. It might as well have the headline: "YOU WERE A MISTAKE."

 

And it's not exactly the best idea that if you're worried about being alienated in a small town because you have a mixed-race child to imply that all your neighbors are probably racist.

 

That's exactly what I thought when I read the article. It's the child that is impacted the most, especially since the child is mixed race. To me it sounds like she is saying, "If I had a choice, I wouldn't have had a mixed race child."

[marylander1940]

That's exactly what I thought when I read the article. It's the child that is impacted the most, especially since the child is mixed race. To me it sounds like she is saying, "If I had a choice, I wouldn't have had a mixed race child."

 

If she had been given the sperm of another white man she possibly wouldn't have even noticed someone misread 330 for 380...

 

Because of her mothers actions that little girl in a few years will go through something similar to Mccain's Bangladeshi born daughter lived when she googled her name and was aware of all the rumors about her.

 

Memory lane:

 

http://www.bartcopnation.com/dc/dcboard.php?forum=8&topic_id=522&az=show_topic

 

http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/19/mccain_family_2.jpg

 

http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article334121.ece/alternates/s615/2C700A82-992E-4BA4-4989F5E8678D5923.jpg

[maninsoma]

This mother's actions are reprehensible. I would understand her complaining if she was supposed to be inseminated with the sperm of someone she personally knew, but basically she's just saying she's upset because her child is part black. Unless the mom grows up fast, that poor kid is going to grow up knowing her mom thinks she's inferior.

[MiamiLooker]

Was this an acceptable mistake made by the sperm bank?

[bostonman]

Was this an acceptable mistake made by the sperm bank?

 

I doubt it. This all sounds to me like a lose/lose on all counts. The sperm bank's mistake is regrettable (though one wonders how often this kind of thing happens), and I think the parents have the right to sue (on a basic consumer level, they didn't get the product they purchased - clinical and cold as that sounds in a case like this). But I also agree with maninsoma and others here - making the issue about the race of the child is just unforgivably wrong.

 

I'm almost on the verge of wishing that the couple would give the child up for adoption and decide not to have children at all - I'm questioning whether these women are really good parents or not. They've already done a lot of harm by playing the race card, and calling attention to what they unfortunately perceive as a deformity of sorts. Luckily the child is too young right now to understand what's going on. But inevitably she'll learn about this. and it may be hard for her to accept that it isn't HER fault for being the way she is. It's hard enough for a child with any sort of congenital illness, etc. To place a burden on her because she's not the color her parents wanted (in a society where even the parents - a lesbian couple - are not going to be universally accepted - cf. "people who live in glass houses" perhaps?) is simply cruel.

[marylander1940]

Was this an acceptable mistake made by the sperm bank?

 

Hell no! They should have been more carful and check things over and over again.

 

if you want the sperm or a Nobel Award winner that what you should get.

[+ Funguy]

Hell no! They should have been more carful and check things over and over again.

 

if you want the sperm or a Nobel Award winner that what you should get.

 

Um, Marylander…….start with "carful" and go from there!

 

Yeah, I know…..

[marylander1940]

Um, Marylander…….start with "carful" and go from there!

 

Yeah, I know…..

 

I misspelled a word... guilty as charged!

 

Does that ever happen to you?

[Steven_Draker]

Does it mean the mother will be loving and caring LESS for the child because she's mixed race?

[+ Funguy]

I misspelled a word... guilty as charged!

 

Does that ever happen to you?

 

 

Sorry - was a joke re: careful, et. al.

[marylander1940]

Sorry - was a joke re: careful, et. al.

 

I know it was a joke, but this subject ain't one.

 

You should become the next Joan Rivers.

[bostonman]

You should become the next Joan Rivers.

 

There will NEVER be another Joan Rivers. And that's no joke either.

[marylander1940]

There will NEVER be another Joan Rivers. And that's no joke either.

 

I miss her so much, she would be doing ebola jokes about Melissa inviting her to travel to Liberia.

 

The same joke would be applied to a trip to Syria because of Isis (IS aka caliphate).

[Strafe13]

I know it was a joke, but this subject ain't one.

 

You should become the next Joan Rivers.

 

Beyond the joke, it was also the height of irony that you have two minor typographical/proofreading errors in a post declaring that the clinic made an inexcusable mistake. I remember reading an article about this case, and -- irony alert! -- the mistake was due to the same type of error: the clinic gave the woman the sperm from donor 350 instead of 380, or the other way around. What this clinic did was such a huge screw-up that I can't imagine how upset I'd be if I was in those parents' position (upset about getting the wrong donor, not that the donor was of a different race, per se). But it's a really common mistake that anyone could have made. The clinic should have had a multi-tiered review process to catch errors like this, though. All that being said, this couple, going on and on about the racial difficulties they're facing, makes it seem like they're big, whiny, perhaps a smidge racist, jerks.

[Steven_Draker]

Which donor was it?

 

http://crystalcoastoptometry.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Optical-Illusion-3.jpg

[+ Funguy]

Beyond the joke, it was also the height of irony that you have two minor typographical/proofreading errors in a post declaring that the clinic made an inexcusable mistake. I remember reading an article about this case, and -- irony alert! -- the mistake was due to the same type of error: the clinic gave the woman the sperm from donor 350 instead of 380, or the other way around. What this clinic did was such a huge screw-up that I can't imagine how upset I'd be if I was in those parents' position (upset about getting the wrong donor, not that the donor was of a different race, per se). But it's a really common mistake that anyone could have made. The clinic should have had a multi-tiered review process to catch errors like this, though. All that being said, this couple, going on and on about the racial difficulties they're facing, makes it seem like they're big, whiny, perhaps a smidge racist, jerks.

 

Actually 3 but thank you, Strafe

[+ FreshFluff]

It's far more than a race issue though. Many women pay a premium for "designer" sperm from a donor has some combination of: physical characteristics (height, build, hair color), a medical record free of particular diseases (especially ones that occur on the mother's side), IQ and SAT scores, degrees from a particular school, and gender of the sperm (sperm sorting). I'm sure that similar mistakes have happened with the other items listed, but we don't hear about them as much.

 

They may be shallow, but the sperm banks are willing to do business with them. In so doing, they likely pledge to maintain multiple safeguards against such mistakes. If they screw up, they can't be surprised when parents who paid for a designer baby get pissed and sue.

 

Of course, the real loser here is the little girl. As someone else said, I wish the mothers had been willing to put her up for adoption. It's extremely difficult to adopt an infant within the US , and there are plenty of parents who would have jumped at the chance to adopt her.

[marylander1940]

Beyond the joke, it was also the height of irony that you have two minor typographical/proofreading errors in a post declaring that the clinic made an inexcusable mistake. I remember reading an article about this case, and -- irony alert! -- the mistake was due to the same type of error: the clinic gave the woman the sperm from donor 350 instead of 380, or the other way around. What this clinic did was such a huge screw-up that I can't imagine how upset I'd be if I was in those parents' position (upset about getting the wrong donor, not that the donor was of a different race, per se). But it's a really common mistake that anyone could have made. The clinic should have had a multi-tiered review process to catch errors like this, though. All that being said, this couple, going on and on about the racial difficulties they're facing, makes it seem like they're big, whiny, perhaps a smidge racist, jerks.

 

Please correct me anytime you want... I guess I need to stop typing in my iPhone and go back to my computer.

 

and they gave the sperm of donor 330 instead of donor 380.

 

Once I got excited thinking I had a quarter from 1963 (silver) unfortunately it was from 1968 and worth just a quarter.

 

Check the article.

 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-sperm-donor-lawsuit-met-20140930-story.html

 

Actually 3 but thank you, Strafe

 

You've said it before, you're redundant.

 

If you're like this about grammar and misspellings, I wonder how bitchy you get when it's more personal..

 

Thank you guys for posting on this thread I started!

 

Now let's grow up and go back to subject.