Children – by default – have the right to support from both parents, to contact with them and for them to take parental responsibility. A law has to be activated for these rights to be removed, this is exceptional and I don’t think it should happen lightly.

I’m not sure where you’re getting your information that the use of donor sperm “voids” parental rights of the donor. It doesn’t.

When I donated eggs, I had to terminate my parental rights, just as I would have had I given up a child for adoption. I would imagine it’s the same with donated sperm. And any child born to a marriage is presumed by the law to be a child of that marriage, so married couples wouldn’t have the same kind of adoption issues that would come up with an unmarried or same-sex couple.

Yes, I do think that lesbians and single people should be prevented from accessing assisted reproduction, with donor sperm (or eggs) of the sort which voids the legal parenthood of the biological father (or mother). I think there needs to be some sort of justification for legally removing one set of parental responsibilies.

The point here is that two lesbians will be two parents for the child, which should satisfy your rigid binary parent requirement. Sperm donors voluntarily sign away their parenting rights out of respect for the child’s actual parents – that’s your justification. They provide the genetic puzzle piece the lesbians need, no more.

It seems like you don’t think the lesbians can be effective parents on their own?

Looks like Indiana’s Pat Miller has backed off her attempts to legislate intrauterine government implants for infertile couples and single women…

“The issue has become more complex than anticipated “

What she means is I got pissed and threatened to come down to Indianapolis and personally punch her in the Alcock’s canal.

Yes, I do think that lesbians and single people should be prevented from accessing assisted reproduction, with donor sperm (or eggs) of the sort which voids the legal parenthood of the biological father (or mother). I think there needs to be some sort of justification for legally removing one set of parental responsibilies. I don’t think this should happen without screening, particularly as the child isn’t a party to the act which removes some of their rights.