Junior v. Glover has expanded the definition of parenthood in Pennsylvania.
Her pregnant wife filed for divorce. The lawsuit changed who gets to be a parent in Pa.Nicole Junior in the nursery inside her home in Philadelphia. Junior has not met her son.Nicole Junior and Chanel Glover were ready to be mothers, so the same month as their wedding, they began pursuing IVF.
Courts will now take into account all the decisions and actions leading up to a successful birth, said Helen Casale, a fellow of the“How did they come to this determination to plan this family together? Did they go to doctors appointments? Did they make decisions related to the type of person who’s going to be the sperm donor?” Casale said.
Their journey to motherhood required fortitude and patience. First, the two went through a battery of tests and consultations at their local fertility clinic. Once they signed up for IVF, Junior injected hormones into Glover’s abdomen every day for two weeks, alternating between the left and right sides, to prepare her wife for her egg retrieval. She waited in the parking lot with Glover’s mother during the surgical procedure.
But at the same time, their marriage was crumbling. They wrote to therapists asking for help setting up “a healthy coparenting plan” if they ended up getting divorced, according to court papers. “My only concern was having a safe birth and being able to give birth to a healthy child,” Glover, now 41, said. “I hung up the phone, relieved.”
“Can my wife say, ‘I’m rejecting you as the father?’” Sulman asked during the hearing. “I’m in a heterosexual relationship. married to my spouse. My spouse gets naturally pregnant, and at some point during the pregnancy, she decides that I’m no longer her spouse. … Are you saying that she could then say, ‘I’m no longer a parent,’ when that child is eventually born?”
“I, of course, don’t want to disenfranchise other queer families,” Glover said. “I just don’t want my case, specifically my son, to be an agenda. And that’s what it’s becoming.”
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