Guys I'm sure this mother loves her daughter, but the sperm bank [Inks]ed up pretty bad here. Sperm isn't exactly a fungible commodity; the entire point of a sperm bank is that the future mother picks the specific stuff she wants from a catalog with all the donor's traits and characteristics. That they accidentally gave her sperm from a different donor defeats the whole point, and indicates there's something seriously wrong with their operating procedures. The race mistake is a big deal IMO because the child is obviously gonna be curious about that, and that will probably force her parents to tell her where she came from before she's old enough to handle it
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I saw this on the Today Show as I was leaving the other day, and the woman clearly loves her daughter. This is not a race issue at all. It is an issue about the sperm bank really, really f[inks]ing things up.
Furthermore, would her detractors defend a woman having an abortion who became pregnant with a black child after voluntarily having intercourse and deciding she didn’t want a mixed race child? If that is justified, how is her right to chose which sperm she receives not justified?
She's correct.
I would also be severely pissed if I got a black child, when my partner and I in fact wanted a white one.
That's like going to the tech store to buy a MacBook and the salesperson brings a Sony VAIO.
Of course there are some people out who actually badly wanted to buy the MacBook and taking the Sony VAIO with them "because they don't mind".
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Nonetheless, because the small black child is a human being and not a PC, I wouldn't treat it any other than if the sperm bank worked correctly and a white kid was born.
Still, the sperm bank made an error and needs to pay for it.
You seriously are comparing this to buying computers? That's silly. And if somebody wants a child, it really shouldn't matter what color the child is, a child is a child.
If somebody wants a child and has to go through a sperm bank to do so, they have the right to pick which sperm they want. A sperm bank doesn't have the right to randomly dump sperm on a patient anymore than a surgeon has a right to randomly cut off a patient’s leg during open heart surgery.
