Kansas sperm donor's plight - Gay marriage

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 (http://bit.ly/1LGN6uI ) 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.

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