Designer babies don’t always live up to their billing.
Heather Wilhelm-Routenberg, who hates men, agreed to be artificially impregnated with an egg from her lesbian “wife,” Robin Routenberg-Wilhelm, provided the resulting baby was female. Unfortunately, the clinic made a mistake. To her credit, Heather carried the baby to term and does love her son…but she’s still suing the clinic for the trauma of putting a baby boy into her life and, worse, making a big news story about it.
The New York Post has the story about what happened when Heather and Robin (“Robbie”) agreed to have a child, even though their XX chromosomes prevented the one from impregnating the other. Heather said she couldn’t bear to have a boy child because she’d been sexually assaulted twice in college. (The one-out-of-four lie to the contrary, few women are sexually assaulted even once at college. It makes you wonder what college Heather attended.)
The original plan was for Robbie to carry a baby with Heather’s egg, as opposed to Heather carrying a baby with Robbie’s egg. (Again, this kind of nonsense arises because two people with XX chromosomes not only can’t make a Y chromosome, but can’t make anything at all.) Heather was afraid of hospitals and medical procedures but agreed to carry a baby with Robbie’s DNA, provided it was a girl. Instead, Heather’s sonogram revealed a boy….