Custody battle over five-year-old twins with THREE mothers: Fears for children as love-split lesbians fight it out
- Lesbian couple engaged in 'informal' sperm and egg donor arrangement
- Twin girls now have birth mother, an adoptive mother, a biological mother and an anonymous father
- Case described by Christian Medical Fellowship as a 'disturbing harbinger'
Twin
five-year-old girls who effectively have three mothers are at the centre
of a fierce custody battle between the two lesbians who brought them
into the world.
The
children live with their birth mother but were conceived from eggs
donated by her ex-partner – and later adopted by her current partner.
Under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, the egg donor has no legal status as a parent.
But
she is fighting for a shared residence order which would allow her
part-time custody of the girls – and would recognise her as a third
legal guardian.
The court battle prompted warnings over informal sperm and egg donor agreements and concern over the effect on the children.
Philippa
Taylor, of the Christian Medical Fellowship, said: ‘This is a
disturbing harbinger of things to come. These kinds of cases will
continue to rise as the number of people seeking egg and sperm donation
increases.
In
this situation, the mothers appear to have deliberately created a
situation where the parentage of the children is malleable.
The
twins now have a birth mother, an adoptive mother, a biological mother
and an anonymous father, who they can have no contact with until they
are 18. It is hugely confusing for the children.
‘Too
many of these kinds of egg and sperm donor arrangements are done
informally, with no concrete decisions made about what role the
different parents will play.’
A
court heard the birth mother and genetic mother had an ‘intimate
relationship’ after meeting in the 1990s and continued to live together
after their relationship became platonic. When one of them struggled to
conceive, the other agreed to donate her eggs, which were fertilised
using an anonymous sperm donor in 2007.
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