TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) An attorney representing a Kansas sperm donor who is being pushed by the state to pay child support says his client’s legal battle is similar to the fight for same-sex couples to marry.
Charles Baylor represents William Marotta, who has been resisting state efforts to declare him the legal parent of a 5-year-old girl conceived with sperm he sold to a same-sex couple.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Baylor argued in a court filing earlier this month that the state shouldn’t discriminate against the lesbian couple by forcing the child to have a male parent.
A Shawnee County district court judge said in June that Marotta and the couple failed to include a physician during the artificial insemination process and thus isn’t entitled to protections given to other sperm donors.
