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White woman sues sperm bank after having mixed race baby

An American woman has sued a sperm bank after it mixed up donors and gave her sperm from a black man instead of the white man she and her partner selected.

Mix up

Jennifer Cramblett, 36, filed a lawsuit against the Chicago-area Midwest Sperm Bank for wrongful birth and breach of warranty.

Cramblett told The Huffington Post in a phone interview that she and her partner, Amanda Zinkon, wanted their child to bear some resemblance to them - particularly Zinkon, who would not be carrying the baby.

After hours deliberating over sperm donor profiles, they found a donor with blond hair and blue eyes who looked like he shared heritage with Zinkon. But they didn't get the sperm they ordered.

Cramblett insisted that the lawsuit is not an issue of race. She said that the family is simply trying to get compensation to deal with a situation they weren't prepared to handle.

Cramblett, who spoke with her lawyer present, said that while it’s true she and Zinkon didn’t plan on a mixed-race child, “I would never, ever take that away.”

“We love her, she’s dream come true,” Cramblett said of her two-year-old daughter, Payton.

“For people to think I don’t want this child because of her skin tone is just not the case. It angers me that people would even think I don’t want my child.”

Because of the two-year-old's mixed heritage, Cramblett said the family will have to move away from their current home in Uniontown, Ohio - a place she described as white, conservative and too racially intolerant.

“This isn’t LA or New York. We’re not on the coasts. We’re in farm country,” Cramblett said.

“That raises my concerns [for Payton.] Being a lesbian growing up in a small town, I went through a lot of things that were hard on me. I don’t want her to have to go through that.”

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