THIS is racist.
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White Ohio Woman Sues Over Sperm From Black Donor
An Ohio woman has sued a Chicago-area sperm bank after she became pregnant with sperm donated by a black man instead of a white man as she and her partner had intended.
The woman is seeking damages and wants to ensure the sperm bank doesn't make a similar mistake again.
Within days of their wedding in New York, Jennifer Cramblett and Amanda Zinkon had become pregnant with the donor sperm. In April 2012, five months into her pregnancy, Cramblett, 36, called Midwest Sperm Bank LLC outside Chicago to reserve sperm from the same donor in the hope that Zinkon, 29, would someday also have a child.
That's when Cramblett received some disturbing news, says a lawsuit filed Monday against Midwest Sperm Bank in Cook County, Illinois: She learned from a sperm bank employee that she had been inseminated with sperm from the wrong donor.
Cramblett said they had chosen sperm from a man known as No. 380, a white donor. The sperm used for insemination came from No. 330, a black donor, she said.
"How could they make a mistake that was so personal?" Cramblett said during a telephone interview on Wednesday.
According to the lawsuit, her excitement about the pending birth was replaced with "anger, disappointment and fear."
"They took a personal choice, a personal decision and took it on themselves to make that choice for us out of pure negligence," Cramblett said.
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The lawsuit said they had moved from Akron to Uniontown for better schools and to be closer to Cramblett's family. She said that as a lesbian she has felt the sting of prejudice but doesn't know what it's like to be mistreated because of skin color.
The lawsuit says Cramblett also is worried about how Payton will be treated in her "all-white, and often unconsciously insensitive family."
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It's kind of bizarre, isn't it? I can see the woman wanting sperm from a man who's skin resembles her own. But there are a couple of other remarks in the story that I find dissonant.
1 -- She's in a same sex relationship (Jennifer and Amanda, both might want babies from the same donor). Her concern about the negative reaction from her family to the parentage of the baby but there's no mention of their reaction to her same sex relationship. That's some selective enlightenment.
2 -- Speaking of her family, how can they be "often unconsciously insensitive"? I mean, I get that some people are dense *and* rude. But if you already know that, how can that stay the same? Certainly something can give there. Unconsciousness can become consciousness, often can become infrequent, insensitive can become sensitive. And if it can't, why pursue it unless you're Don Quixote?
3 -- She says she's experienced the sting of prejudice as a lesbian but is oblivious to the fact that she's doing the same thing because of skin color. ???
4 -- I rolled my eyes at the way she expressed her outrage: "they took it on themselves to make that [her] choice out of negligence." Oh boy. I think she's trying to shoehorn the word "negligence" in there; maybe there was negligence, maybe she feels it's important to her case. But that's not the same as actively taking away something. I note that the facility does not have electronic records, meaning that mistaking "#380" and "#330" is easier to imagine.
Almost certainly a mistake. Probably negligent. Understandably regrettable. Definitely prejudiced. Hardly fatal.