DCG posted: " Sacramento Bee: 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
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<http://www.sacbee.com/2014/10/02/6755072/white-ohio-woman-sues-over-sperm.html>:
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 learned from a sperm bank employee that she had been
inseminated with sperm from the wrong donor, according to a lawsuit filed
Monday against Midwest Sperm Bank in Cook County, Illinois.
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.
A woman who answered the telephone at Midwest Sperm Bank on Thursday would
not comment and said an attorney would be providing a statement. She would
not give her name or identify the attorney.
Cramblett said she and Zinkon love their 2-year-old daughter, Payton, very
much and wouldn't change anything about her. *But they are concerned about
raising her in the predominantly white community where they live.*
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." *Therapists
have recommended that Cramblett, Zinkon and Payton move to a more racially
diverse community with good schools, the lawsuit said.
*Cramblett said she decided to sue to prevent the sperm bank from making
the same mistake again.* The lawsuit says the sperm bank has no electronic
record-keeping and no quality controls that would have prevented it from
sending the wrong sperm to fertility clinics.
The lawsuit seeks a minimum of $50,000 in damages. Cramblett's attorney,
Tim Misny, said some of the compensation would pay for ongoing counseling.
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