Case Study: Kansas Sperm Donor

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Accidently posted and was not ready so here is the rest of my disscussion; Sperm Donor Legal Issues Highlighted By Kanas Case This cases is about a Kansas Sperm donor being sued by the state for child support put himself in a percarious position by getting involved in a lesbian couple's do it yourself artifical insemination. Kansas law states that a sperm donor is not the fatherof a child if a doctor handles the artifical insemination. But the law does not specificlly address donors rights and obligations when no doctor was involved. Case happened in 2009 when William Marotta answered an online ad for a sperm donation for Angela Bauer and her then-partner ,Jennifer Schnider. The three

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