ACLU-NH Files Amicus Brief Before N.H. Supreme Court Supporting LGBT Equality In Parentage Cases
If you are a lesbian woman in New Hampshire, you and your unmarried female partner agree to conceive a child through donor insemination, and you hold the child out as your own even though you are not genetically related to the child, can you claim parentage of the child under New Hampshire law? Amazingly, this is not clear. New Hampshire's parentage statute, RSA 168-B:3, is not gender neutral on its face; instead, the statute applies only to a father who is seeking to establish parentage, not a mother. This needs to change.