Iowa Judge: A Woman Can Sire a Child

By Nicholas Stix

[Previously, at WEJB/NSU:

“Same-Sex Marriage Activists Have Launched a Religious War”;

“How Elites Impose Gay Marriage from the Top Down”; and

“Denver Post Columnist Suggests a Man Can Give Birth to a Child.”]

This isn’t about adoption, it’s about a sexual fantasy: Lesbians want to be recognized as able to sire children. And so, their will be done. Gay men want to be want to be recognized as able to give birth to children. And so, their will be done. And feminists and lesbians want to impose the fantasy that a “man” can give birth to a child. And so, their will be done.

I want to be recognized as seven feet tall, and as able to fly like a bird. And so, my will be done? No; I am not a member of a class of protected political psychopaths. And so, my fantasies remain just that.
 

Judge: Put both moms' names on birth certificate
5:21 p.m., January 4, 2012 |
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Written by Register Staff
Des Moines Register

A Polk County district court judge ruled today that the spouse in a same-sex marriage should be listed on their child's birth certificate without going through adoption proceedings.

Judge Eliza Ovrom ordered the Iowa Department of Public Health to issue a birth certificate naming Melissa Gartner as a parent of Mackenzie Jean Gartner.

The health department in 2009 had refused to list Gartner on the birth certificate until she had adopted the child.

“Pursuant to Varnum v. Brien, where a married woman gives birth to a baby conceived through use of an anonymous sperm donor, the Department of Public Health should place her same-sex spouse’s name on the child’s birth certificate without requiring the spouse to go through an adoption proceeding,” Ovrom wrote.

Read the court ruling

Heather Lynn Martin Gartner and Melissa McCoy Gartner, both of Des Moines sued the Iowa Department of Public Health in 2010. The case was dismissed in early 2011 on a technicality, and re-filed two weeks ago.

Camilla Taylor, the Gartners' attorney, had argued that the state lists married men on birth certificates, even when it's impossible for them to be the biological father.

State attorney Heather Adams, during the court case, argued that the health department has extended rights to same-sex married couples since an Iowa Supreme Court ruling allowing same-sex marriages. She had said the department has no concerns about two women raising a child, citing "solid scientific evidence" that children of gay couples are as healthy as those raised by a man and a women.

However, the state law's wording in regards to parentage is gender-specific, and not open to interpretation, she argued.

Iowa code states if a woman is married, the husband is the father, absent a court order that says otherwise.

"If I had to summarize the department's case in one sentence, it would be this: It is a biological impossibility for a woman to ever legally establish paternity of a child," Adams had argued.