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Heather Clark, Christian News Network — (Miami, Florida) A judge in Florida has ruled that a homosexual hairstylist that fathered a child via artificial insemination may be listed on the girl’s birth certificate, along with the two lesbian women that are raising her.The matter ends a two-year legal battle between the women and their friend, who they approached to help them produce a child.
Maria Italiano, 43, and Cher Filippazzo, 38, turned to Massilmiliano Gerina three years ago to ask if he would consider being a donor so that they could have a baby. When he agreed, the three made a verbal agreement that Filippazzo would adopt the baby, and the two women would raise it. Gerina was to have relinquished his rights to the fatherhood of the child.
“When push came to shove, they figured he would understand the situation,” explained attorney Kenneth Kaplan. “The mistake they made, however, was there should have been a written document spelling out what his rights and responsibilities we, making are going to be.”
Just before the baby was to be born, Gerina reportedly changed his mind and stated that he did not want to just be the donor, he wanted to have a parental role in the child’s life. The women disagreed and did not want the man to be listed on the birth certificate as the baby’s father.That’s when Gerina hired an attorney and began to fight for legal recognition in the courts. Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Antonio Marin recently ruled that Gerina’s name could be placed on the birth certificate, along with Italiano and Filippazzo, making the baby — a girl — the child of three parents.
Reaction to the ruling has been largely unfavorable.
“Another example of how ‘gay rights’ are making things even more complicated,” one commenter wrote.
“The judge has a mental disorder if he thinks three people created that child,” another stated. “Only the gay man and the lesbian who’s egg was fertilized. The judge needs to be removed from the bench for poor judgement and the ruling overturned. Science people. Who’s genetic pool was tapped for this child? End of story.”
“It is impossible to have three parents on a birth certificate,” added a third. “You have one mother and one father; you can not conceive a child any other way.”
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