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The thing I am trying to wrap my brain around is how it is that she is worried that this town and family that apparently accepts
a same sex with kids living arrangement gets all uptight over a bi racial child.
I am thinking we don't have the whole story here, especially with a comment like this from her lawyer that makes the whole case for moving seem like weak sauce:

"But in spite of their strong wish to relocate, Cramblett and Zinkon don't have the financial means to do so, Cramblett's attorney Timothy Misny told CNN.
"Uniontown is a wonderful town, wonderful people, but there are no biracial children and no mixed marriages. We need to relocate Jennifer and her family to a town that offers that type of diverse culture," Misny said."

If the lab screwed up, they should be liable, but there are elements we aren't getting here.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Well, they aren't exactly going to make a public statement like, "This is a terrible town full of bigots and sociopaths" while they are still living there. And I have met people who are okay with LGBT rights of all kinds, but cross the street when they see someone darker walking their way.

I've lived in the midwest farming area and I have seen it the opposite to your experience. I really don't believe we have the whole story.

 dogma wrote:

Relapse wrote:

If the lab screwed up, they should be liable, but there are elements we aren't getting here.

Given that the lab admitted making an error I think we can safely conclude that it did, whether or not it is liable depends on the nature of contract the woman signed. Given this, I suspect the emphasis the child's race and the the desire to relocate is intended to be an appeal to emotion designed to increase the amount awarded in the event of a favorable judgment.

Agreed

 cincydooley wrote:

 Peter Wiggin wrote:
They can't figure out black people hair!

Sounds like this multi-racial same sex parent family needs some funds for more diversity counseling.

Which is why they're suing I guess.

Well, no. They're suing because she was effectively "raped" by the sperm bank.

She consented to being impregnated by a blue eyed white dude, not a black dude.

Two years down the road from the incident. A lot in her story does not add up.

 Kali wrote:

Relapse wrote:
Two years down the road from the incident. A lot in her story does not add up.

Lawsuits are almost always preceded by informal negotiation and then arbitration, processes which can take years. Not to mention the fact that there's obviously a definite stigma and a lot of negative pressure attached to suing a place for giving you your daughter...

Either way, the lab fethed up big time and she deserves compensation for that.

I'm not saying the lab didn't screw up, I don't know really much from the article though, except her side of the story, and it leaves many questions with the fragment we have.

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
If you live in the sort of town that reacts negatively to a mixed race child I assume that having same-sex parents doesn't lend itself to an easy ride. Even if the child were white, they'd always be that one with the gay parents.

Still the clinc screwed up badly, they still mixed up samples and I seminars soneone with the wrong one. There's a significant grievance there. I'm surprised that such a process can go wrong because someone misreads the handwriting on a request. Surely there would be more checks in place than that?

That was the thing that had me from the first. They'd apparently been living in this town from before they had the baby and for two years after that. There was no complaint about people being down on them for being a same sex couple, either in the town or from their family. Now, all of a sudden, they are hearing things about their bi racial baby? Something isn't adding up here. True, the clinic is at fault and owes them something, but I think Dogma called it right in his post. They are playing angles to get a bigger settlement.

I think everyone here is in agreement that these women are owed buckets of cask and that sperm bank needs to do a serious overhaul of their system.
I would like to know more about this town, though.

Looks like a decent enough place to live:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniontown,_Ohio