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After Marriage Equality: Dual Fatherhood For Married Male Same-Sex Couples, Jessica Feinberg
After Marriage Equality: Dual Fatherhood For Married Male Same-Sex Couples, Jessica Feinberg
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In most states, married male same-sex couples who conceive children via gestational surrogacy using sperm from one member of the couple and donor ova must pursue adoption in order to establish legal parentage for the member of the couple who is not genetically related to the child. This is because only a minority of jurisdictions have surrogacy laws that recognize the non-biological intended parent as a legal parent in this situation, and across the United States cisgender male same-sex couples are excluded from the longstanding non-adoptive marriage-based avenues of establishing parentage currently available to both different-sex couples and female same-sex …