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John Buzzanca
Not My Daughter - A true story of a former drug trafficker and a landmark surrogacy case
Not My Daughter - A true story of a former drug trafficker and a landmark surrogacy case
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How To Make a “Parentless” Child:
1. Take an egg from one woman.
2. Add a sperm cell from one man.
3. Combine the two reproductive cells in a test tube.
4. Insert the zygote into the uterus of a second woman to gestate.
5. Wait nine months then hand over the resultant infant to a third woman (my then-wife), who had contracted the gestational surrogate, despite the fact that a second man (me) was in the process of divorcing her. Add to the equation the second man’s past as an international drug-smuggler and convicted trafficker together with the reality that he did not want to become a parent.
Now, who is the mother of the child? And who is the father?
In the subsequent landmark case involving surrogacy rights, after a California Superior Court Judge ruled that this little girl had no legal parents, an appellate court declared that my ex-wife was the girl’s legal mother and I was the father. For eighteen years I made all of my court-ordered child support payments for a child I have never met. My legal obligation is now complete, as of June 2013, and this is my story of why I have not recognized the young life, created by science and technology and driven by maternal and monetary demand, as my daughter.
1. Take an egg from one woman.
2. Add a sperm cell from one man.
3. Combine the two reproductive cells in a test tube.
4. Insert the zygote into the uterus of a second woman to gestate.
5. Wait nine months then hand over the resultant infant to a third woman (my then-wife), who had contracted the gestational surrogate, despite the fact that a second man (me) was in the process of divorcing her. Add to the equation the second man’s past as an international drug-smuggler and convicted trafficker together with the reality that he did not want to become a parent.
Now, who is the mother of the child? And who is the father?
In the subsequent landmark case involving surrogacy rights, after a California Superior Court Judge ruled that this little girl had no legal parents, an appellate court declared that my ex-wife was the girl’s legal mother and I was the father. For eighteen years I made all of my court-ordered child support payments for a child I have never met. My legal obligation is now complete, as of June 2013, and this is my story of why I have not recognized the young life, created by science and technology and driven by maternal and monetary demand, as my daughter.
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