It's because a really wish I were wealthy enough to adopt this child. Abiola at Foreign Dispatches spotted this story, and dismembers the essentialist reasoning in the case with both passion and dispassion...
"While we love Baby Jessica as our own, we are reminded of this terrible mistake every time we look at her; it is simply impossible to ignore," the judge quoted the parents as saying in their affidavit. "We are conscious of and distressed by this mistake every time we appear in public."
It's going to be miserable for this child though.
US couple sue clinic for sperm sample mix-up
Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
Friday March 23, 2007
The Guardian
A Long Island couple are suing a fertility clinic for mixing up sperm samples after their baby girl was born with darker skin than either parent.
Thomas and Nancy Andrews claim that the New York clinic, Medical Services for Reproductive Medicine, was negligent and used the sperm of another man. When they noticed the baby's skin was darker than their own they were told by the doctor involved that the in vitro fertilisation had been done properly and the condition was normal. The doctor assured them, according to court papers, that the child would "get lighter over time".
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She's going to have a hard time.
A friend of mine sent me the article about this story. I was repulsed by the description of these 'parents' of that beautiful little girl. Don't they know that one day, she'll be able to look up on the internet and READ what they said about her?
I also flipped the script on my friend and asked her what she thought would happen if two Black people went into a clinic, and came out with a bi-racial baby. Would it get any play? Any story?
Hmmmm....
But, the mother looked as Black as I do. I had to study the two daughters to see what the difference was between them, and I really didn't see that much of a difference.