Why the fuck would a judge care that a parent jokingly put on their kids clothing?

Linda Ellerbee should be named a national treasure. Her Nick News programs are better written and produced than half of the stuff on the "legit" news networks. I don't have kids and I still watch them occasionally online. The segment about children fleeing Syria was really amazing.

I'm sorry, why are we reading this again?

OMG Linda Ellerbeeeeee! She is the reason I first got interested in Journalism as a kid and eventually got my degree in Communications. You get on with your badass self, Linda! All the props in the world!

Are you implying that it naturally follows from writing about straight white people that the writer must be a homophobic bigot?

SIZE TWELVE!

Because they have to show damages. Saying "this wasnt what I bought when I paid for the sperm" would get you a refund. Saying "I have all these new expenses" is how you end up with punitive damages which can really put the hurt on the clinic and maybe make them buy a computer system so they can print out a label. As…

Thanks, you said this very well. My partner and I will also depend on a sperm bank because we are both women — the choice of genetics is important for many reasons, not just appearance, and the idea of an accidental mix-up is scary. I think a lot of people assuming she's racist have never been in the position of not…

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.

While I get that, and your experience is totally valid, there are people who don't look like their parents who aren't "adapting." Because people are looking at race as a binary in this situation (which is ridiculous because Payton is this woman's biological child and is half white) they are forgetting that MANY times,…

It highlights something poignant: being a member of a minority has costs, like it literally costs more in money to live somewhere tolerant. Because tolerance is desirable, like leafy trees and good schools. It costs more to deal with the anxiety you face coming from a mixed race family- more in time spent with…

Because when your kids are white, you can speak to them about the racial intolerance of others from a safe distance. But when your child is brown and you aren't and no one else is, it's going to be a much, much more painful lesson. The latter is something I would want to avoid if possible, at least early on. The…

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…

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…

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.

So... I take back the shit I wrote about this woman under the previous article. Some smart posters had already enlightened be as to some of the legal realities. I wish them luck. That girl is so damn precious. And the mother who was interviewed sounds utterly reasonable.

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.

I'm glad this post clarifies some peoples' concerns that her complaint with the sperm bank in any way indicated that she didn't love and cherish her daughter exactly how she is. I'm glad she's suing them because it's incredibly important that people be provided with accurate information when choosing a donor whose DNA…