White Woman Who Sued Sperm Bank Over Black Baby Says It's Not About Race

An Ohio woman sued a sperm after it mixed up donors and gave her the sperm of an African-American man instead of the white one that she and her partner had selected. She says the family is just trying to get compensation to deal with a situation that they weren't prepared to handle.

Jennifer Cramblett, 36,  made headlines this week after she filed a law suit  against the Chicago-area Midwest Sperm Bank for wrongful birth and breach of warranty. Cramblett told The Huffington Post in a phone interview that she and her partner, Amanda Zinkon, wanted their child to bear some resemblance to them -- particularly Zinkon, who would not be carrying the baby. After hours spent poring over sperm donor profiles, they found a donor with blond hair and blue eyes who looked like he shared heritage with Zinkon. But they didn't get the sperm they ordered.

Cramblett, who spoke with her lawyer present, said that while it’s true she and Zinkon didn’t plan on a mixed-race child, “I would never, ever take that away.”

“We love her -- she’s dream come true,” Cramblett said of her 2-year-old daughter, Payton. “For people to think I don’t want this child because of her skin tone is just not the case. It angers me that people would even think I don’t want my child.”

But because Payton isn't completely white, Cramblett said the family will have to move away from their current home in Uniontown, Ohio -- a place she described as white, conservative and too racially intolerant.