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Re: XP from ML IVF babies born to an American woman not eligible for US Citizenship
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DYes, I read it all, and I understand that. My point is that if your two choices are adoption or biological and your children were born from an egg/sperm donor then what would you do? Neither of those choices is applicable.
I'm struggling to figure out how to say what I want. I think I'm using "child born in America" not as a citizenship argument so much as "everyone knows you are my child regardless of gamete origin" argument. If you're giving birth in America, and you used donor eggs, would the hospital treat you as less a mom than the woman next door? No, you're a mom, end of story, and children of an American mom should be American citizens.
If an adopted child can be an American citizen, and biological children of overseas parents can be American, then why is this one tiny niche carved out as unacceptable? It would be one thing if you had to adopt your non-bio gestated children, but that's not an option.
Genetics don't determine your birth certificate, and mine attests to that. My mom certainly didn't birth me, but her name is there for mother, as is her age at my birth. Why should that be denied to someone who actually carried and birthed the child and is raising them as her own?
Oh I agree with you. That birth mom is clearly the mom. I think I fall on the side of "it's obvious this is her kid she's parenting so who cares about genetics".