Yeah, I read about her too. Mary Ann Cotton is still very well known and spoken about in the North East of England particularly. I don't think her location is mentioned much in the article.

Yes! Those were my gateway drug to my obsession with history. I was a 10 year old expat in England when I picked up The Terrible Tudors and never looked back.

Seriously. People screen for diseases too, right? Like you can purposefully pick a donor that isn't a carrier for the same things you are. A mixup could be life-threatening.

I'm the white biological mom of a biracial daughter who was born in New Hampshire.

Okay. I watched the vid, get the lawsuit and I understand their position. If you're not black, half black or any other brown person you may not understand this fully. I'm from the area that they are from. My dad was military so we moved often. We ended back in NE Ohio just in time for my sophomore year in HS. By this…

I can't stand how this story is being twisted by the headlines its being given online. All the headlines make it sound as though the couple is suing because their baby is black. No - that's not why they're suing. They're suing because the sperm bank gave them the wrong sperm, something that's very "suable" no matter…

Yes, I remember this one Dateline about that. People thought they were getting sperm from various donors, but really, the doctor was just giving them all his sperm. A lot of the people lived in the same area, and one guy even found out that he'd dated his half sister in high school. Not good. And yes, of course…

So, you know, a model of diversity and the ideal place for a lesbian couple with a biracial daughter.

I feel this. I'm adopted, biracial, and was raised by a white family. It's not anything against their parenting, it's just a different experience and it can be really hard on kids to try to adapt.

Thanks for posting her interview. The earlier article lacked information and it was easy to interpret her lawsuit as disappointment at having a bi-racial child instead of gross negligence on the part of the sperm bank.

Regardless of the fact that the sperm bank was obviously negligent, why is it racist to be upset that the child you have is a different race than yours, when you planned for it to be a different one and expected that? You can choose your partner and have natural children and know how they will look (to an extent), as…

Although it's easy to point fingers and say that she is racist, this would be a different conversation if the sperm bank had made the mistake of using sperm from a relative or someone with a genetic disease (like an autosomal dominant disorder). At the end of the day, the gross negligence here is terrifying.

My wife and I are trying to conceive with anonymous donor sperm. Our second try was two days ago. We were meticulous in choosing our donor to be similar looking to our characteristics of course.

When I saw this news on a few other outlets over the past few days I thought to myself that this lady is nuts and this poor…

It is very apparent that she loves her daughter. Part of that love is wanting what's best for her. Payton will already stand out in a rural, white area for being the daughter of lesbians. Giving another reason for her to stand apart only serves to make her a bigger target in some eyes. I don't fault her for this at…

Yeah, I can only imagine how many other people got babies with the wrong sperm but never knew about it because the race was what they were expecting. Race was the only way this woman and her partner knew there had been a screw up.

My initial reaction was be outraged at this woman. But then I realized my "outrage" was a result of the narrative the media created. "A mom mad because she was impregnated with black sperm" was basically how it was presented yesterday and sounds pretty terrible at first glance, but I get it. If I paid money for…

There is zero wrong with what she is doing. I hope she shuts that whole place down with her lawsuit. What a gross amount of incompetence to screw up this badly. It has nothing to do with race and everything to do with bad business.

Even though it seems like she really loves her daughter, she deserves a ton of money given the blatant malpractice.

She was the first installment of this series: http://thehairpin.com/2014/05/erzseb…