The Illinois State Supreme Court ruled in Doornbos v Doornbos that a
child conceived via
artificial insemination with donor sperm that did not belong to the husband,
was considered illegitimate and the husband was not the father, regardless of
whether the husband had given his consent for the insemination. The husband in
this divorce case therefore had no obligation to pay child support AND had no
rights to the child.
The Cook County Court ruled the practice was “contrary to
public policy and good morals.”
It was a
California 1968 case, 14 years later, that first determined that artificial
insemination was not an adulterous action and the resulting child WAS “legitimate”.
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