Caucasian Woman Sues Sperm Bank for impregnanting her with a Black Man's sperm

An Ohio woman has sued a
Chicago-area sperm bank after she became
pregnant with sperm donated by a black man
instead of a white man as she and her partner
had intended.
The woman is seeking damages and wants to
ensure the sperm bank doesn't make a similar
mistake again.
Within days of their wedding in New York,
Jennifer Cramblett and Amanda Zinkon had
become pregnant with the donor sperm. In April
2012, five months into her pregnancy,
Cramblett, 36, called Midwest Sperm Bank LLC
outside Chicago to reserve sperm from the
same donor in the hope that Zinkon, 29, would
someday also have a child.

That's when Cramblett received some
disturbing news, says a lawsuit filed Monday
against Midwest Sperm Bank in Cook County,
Illinois: She learned from a sperm bank
employee that she had been inseminated with
sperm from the wrong donor.
Cramblett said they had chosen sperm from a
man known as No. 380, a white donor. The
sperm used for insemination came from No.
330, a black donor, she said.
"How could they make a mistake that was so
personal?" Cramblett said during a telephone
interview on Wednesday.
According to the lawsuit, her excitement about
the pending birth was replaced with "anger,
disappointment and fear."
"They took a personal choice, a personal
decision and took it on themselves to make
that choice for us out of pure negligence,"
Cramblett said.
Telephone messages left Wednesday at
Midwest Sperm Bank were not returned. It's
unclear who its attorney is.
Cramblett said she and Zinkon love their 2-
year-old daughter, Payton, very much and
wouldn't change anything about her. But they
are concerned about raising her in the
predominantly white community where they
live.
The lawsuit said they had moved from Akron to
Uniontown for better schools and to be closer
to Cramblett's family. She said that as a
lesbian she has felt the sting of prejudice but
doesn't know what it's like to be mistreated
because of skin color.
The lawsuit says Cramblett also is worried
about how Payton will be treated in her "all-
white, and often unconsciously insensitive
family."
Therapists have recommended that Cramblett,
Zinkon and Payton move to a more racially
diverse community with good schools, the
lawsuit said.
Cramblett said she decided to sue to prevent
the sperm bank from making the same mistake
again. The lawsuit says the sperm bank has no
electronic record-keeping and no quality
controls that would have prevented it from
sending the wrong sperm to fertility clinics.
The lawsuit seeks a minimum of $50,000 in
damages. Cramblett's attorney, Tim Misny,
said some of the compensation would pay for
ongoing counseling