{"id":181,"date":"2019-12-26T20:33:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T01:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/?page_id=181"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:11:22","slug":"paid-for-a-white-baby-how-assisted-reproductive-technologies-reproduce-white-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/in-print\/volume-11-issue-2-fall-2019\/paid-for-a-white-baby-how-assisted-reproductive-technologies-reproduce-white-supremacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Paid for a White Baby: How Assisted Reproductive Technologies Reproduce White Supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThe white genetic tie\u2014if free from any trace of blackness\u2014is an extremely valua-ble attribute entitling a child to a privileged status.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Production, and the Meaning of Liberty1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2012, Jennifer Cramblett and Amanda Zinkon brought home their healthy baby girl Payton. However, Payton was not the baby the couple paid for\u2014Payton was not white. The lesbian couple employed a sperm bank to fulfill their desire to have genetically related offspring. The sperm bank mistakenly inseminated Cramblett with sperm from black donor #330 instead of their chosen white donor #380. 2 Instead of the white baby that the couple carefully selected, the couple received \u201ca beautiful, obviously mixed-race, baby girl.\u201d3 So they sued.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/12\/GT-GCRP190029.pdf\">I Paid for A White Baby<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe white genetic tie\u2014if free from any trace of blackness\u2014is an extremely valua-ble attribute entitling a child to a privileged status.\u201d \u2014Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Production, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1192,"featured_media":0,"parent":155,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-181","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions\/182"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}