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| Mar 9, 2009 by HEIDI ORAN |
Iron Chef Cat Cora, 41 has revealed to OK! Magazine that she and partner Jennifer Cora, 37 are both pregnant, and both are having boys!
Cat and Jennifer planned their pregnancies, with Cat due three months before Jennifer, in April. In her interview with OK! Cat revealed, "We decided that having them a year apart is harder than having kids as infants together. [Jennifer] carried my embryo and I carried hers. It's like surrogating, but obviously all of our kids are equal."
Cora has taken to her myspace page to share the good news, and described her mood as "blissful."
The couple, who have been together 10 years, used the same sperm donor for their pregnancies as they had with their older sons, Zoran and Caje.
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Just when I thought it was safe to go back in the water.........
Congratulations to the couple, but I'm a little bit irritated by the embryo switching thing. Surrogacy, sperm donors, I understand and respect these choices when no other option is left, but the embryo switching here is born out of sheer self-serving reasons. The motivation behind this may be comprehensible, but playing with nature for no other reason than "i want this, let's do it" is IMO nothing to brag about.
shirilicious - I'm usually the one to say stop playing with the nature, but not in this case. It's biologically impossible to the to have biological child together. This is one way to to get biologigal bond between both parents and a child.
I never have liked her. I change the channel every time she is on a show. She thinks she knows a lot but she doesn't. Poor kids are going to be all confused in life. All for their own selfishness.
I was surprised to read she is a lesbian! I guess you do learn something new every day.
Could not have said it better Shrilicious. I'm open minded and think everyone deserves happiness and sexual preferences are not for us to judge but this seems a bit much. Yes, same sex partners cannot have kids naturally.. but this swapping embryos is odd. It's not like putting an outfit together 'hey let's mix and match!'. Eye rolling over here a little.
shirilicious ~It makes sense to switch embryos from a legal standpoint, in case they ever split up and had they not done this, neigher would have claims for partial custody, or even visitation as they would have no direct physical claim to the to the child that the other had carried. And you cna't sign any custody agreement prior to birth, as it wouldn't be valid. By each carrying the other's kids and therefore becoming equal parents in the eyes of the law, it protects any future relationship with the kids in the event of a split.
Lala, but couldn't they adopt each others kids if that's their concern? And generally asking, from a legal point of view, is an egg donor really an equal parent before law? Could Cat for example claim any custodial rights for the kid Jennifer gives birth to just because it was her egg? I'm asking out of curiosity, I really have no clue.
shirilicious ~ I think you do make a good point about adoption. The only real experience I have with a situation where a same sex couple broke up and there was a custody dispute was when my old boss (who happened to be an attorney) broke up with her partner and was denied visitation or any custody for the child that her partner carried. Their situation was that they went to a sperm bank, and her partner was impregnated using her own egg and the sperm from a donor. The courts decided that my boss had no claim whatsoever to the child even though she helped raise the child and supported her from infancy. So I am just thinking that this couple are being creative in their way of making their family unit cohesive and ensuring their rights as parents. As far as either of them having any rights to claim the child because it was their egg, I don't know that there is a legal precedent for this (I looked but couldn't fine any) I am guessing that as more and more famlies are created this way we will see some type of legal precedent being set in custody disputes. But I do know of at least one case where a surrogate mom decided to fight for custody of the baby she carried and she won because it was her egg, so I think it would be a grey area or at least a liability. Hopefully they don't ever have to worry about this, and their family enjoy many happy years together.
Don't same sex couples just adopt the child that isn't biologically theirs? i know that gay men using surrogates do this and that Melissa Etheridge did it with her kids since her wives gave birth to them). Legally, that makes the child equally hers and she has the same rights for custody, etc.
This setup works for this family!
Lala, thank you very much for your answer. It seems so unjustly what happened to your boss. I would recommend to every same sex couple,, just in case something like this happens, to adpot the children you have together, like Sanja said Meliissa Etheridge did it, so she is also legally a mother of the children she had with her first wife.
WOW - The Perfect role model for young people everywhere.
What a f--ked up world......
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