http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bo...r-baby-isnt/ar-AABGXbe?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=LENDHP
This makes my teeth itch! In summary, two gay fellows, both American citizens (one born abroad in Britain to an American mother) used a surrogate to concieve a child, which was born abroad to the surrogate mother and using the sperm of the British-born (but American citizen) father that donated the sperm for the procedure. Both men are legal American citizens, but their daughter is being denied status as an American citizen. They reside in America, also, the surrogate was abroad.
You can argue all day about if gays should marry, be able to adopt, use which restroom, blah, blah, blah, but the bottom line is that two American citizens have worked the only way they can to have a child together, and it is at least in part biologically the child of one of them, and they're getting the runaround on the child's citizenship while anybody with a vagina, regardless of having no connection to our country and no legal claim to citizenship, can waddle across the border just before her water breaks and squirt out a pup and PRESTO, American citizen!
I just find this circumstance ricockulous!
This makes my teeth itch! In summary, two gay fellows, both American citizens (one born abroad in Britain to an American mother) used a surrogate to concieve a child, which was born abroad to the surrogate mother and using the sperm of the British-born (but American citizen) father that donated the sperm for the procedure. Both men are legal American citizens, but their daughter is being denied status as an American citizen. They reside in America, also, the surrogate was abroad.
You can argue all day about if gays should marry, be able to adopt, use which restroom, blah, blah, blah, but the bottom line is that two American citizens have worked the only way they can to have a child together, and it is at least in part biologically the child of one of them, and they're getting the runaround on the child's citizenship while anybody with a vagina, regardless of having no connection to our country and no legal claim to citizenship, can waddle across the border just before her water breaks and squirt out a pup and PRESTO, American citizen!
I just find this circumstance ricockulous!
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