The Jennifer Cramblett incident took place in
Ohio, United States in 2014, when Jennifer Cramblett, a
white woman in a lesbian relationship,[1] gave birth to a
multiracial female child. Cramblett had requested a
sperm donor from a
white man and instead was impregnated by the sperm donated by an
African American man.[2][3][4]
The incident made national headlines and Cramblett and her
domestic partner Amanda Zinkon[5] filed a lawsuit against the
sperm bank which they eventually lost.[6][7][8]
In the lawsuit Cramblett said the incident was "an unplanned transracial parent-child relationship for which she was not, and is not, prepared."[2]
Cramblett also claimed the lawsuit was "not about race".[9]