that's just not how the legal system works. you have to establish damages.

"Cramblett and Zinkon are planning on moving to a different, more diverse area to try and protect their daughter from intolerance and racism."

Wrongful birth and medical malpractice are torts based on someone's negligence, and in some jurisdictions they might be overlapping claims. It matters in terms of damages. In some states, like CA and Ohio, non-economic damages like emotional distress are capped in medical malpractice actions ($250,000). Whereas, as…

Yes, it would. This is very clearly medical malpractice, and like I said in the OP, I think she probably needs the money to get her daughter to a healthier environment. But suing on the theory that she never would have had her daughter if she had known in utero that she was going to be black is disgusting, and the…

Separating the racial aspect from this, if you were given the wrong sperm, wouldn't you be upset?

Fair enough.

The fuck up that resulted in her racial identity being different from what her parents wanted.

Well, in my sure to be controversial opionion, racists are unfit parents of any child, regardless of race.

Yeah, I read that too and immediately hated her. "Its a great place, except its racist. Oh well who cares, I'm white."

She's not. She's suing for emotional distress. Not malpractice, not money to move, but because she's SAD SHE HAS A BLACK BABY. That's why it's bullshit.

So raising a child with two moms in America isn't her problem but raising a half black child is? I think I know why they are still in that town.

Forget it, she's a racist from a family of racists. The kid needs to be taken into protective custody.

It sucks that Payton will eventually realize that her racial identity was/is a source of distress to her parents. Hopefully they find a way to explain that to her before she finds out on her own. Imagine Googling your parents names when you're 10 (or whenever) and discovering that your mother considers your birth…

I think this says alot about the condition of black people in america, when notiong of having to deal with anti blackness even indirectly traumatizes white people.

If she's suing for the funds it will take to relocate her family and keep them afloat until new jobs are found, I'll allow it. That seems like an expense that is necessary for this child's well-being that would not have been necessary but for the mixup. If she's suing for emotional distress, she can get bent.

"Sorry about that. Here, have some blankets..."

I will never understand the absolute disdain for black people so many assholes have. WHAT. IS. YOUR. FUCKING. PROBLEM.

We've always used the proper terms with our kiddo (I'm a biologist, I'm not going to call it a wee-wee or a hoo-haa or whatever). She was then told by other kids she was saying "bad words." Her teacher started to tell her not to say those and she proudly said "My mommy says those are the right words and not to use…

Per @JayGlazer, refs say Colin Kaepernick dropped the N-word on the field last week. Kaepernick denying it, saying he found it there.