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...harmonious families, life runs relatively free of legal hazard for a child produced by A.I.D. (artificial insemination by a donor). But let a will be contested or a marriage break up, and suddenly his status becomes clouded. Is he legitimate or illegitimate? Is he entitled to support as other children are? What rights does he have to his "father's" estate...
Blurring by Mixing. Whether such a conviction would stand up in a higher court is open to question. Although the practice of artificial insemination by donor is growing (perhaps 150,000 living Americans were so conceived), not a single state or federal law defines the rights of the offspring. Only one legal case, in New York in 1948 (Strnad v. Strnad), has held an artificially inseminated child to be legitimate. All other cases on record seem to rule in favor of illegitimacy, whether the husband gave his consent...
What blocks the legislation needed to clear all this up is indifference-plus opposition by religious groups that contend that artificial insemination by a donor constitutes adultery. Last month the Oklahoma house of representatives approved a bill (it has still to pass the senate) that would make that state the first in the U.S. to recognize children produced by artificial insemination as legitimate. Seven other states have tried and failed in the past to enact such basic legislation...
...many years contributed quietly to the N.A.A.C.P., the Urban League and similar groups. "What makes this new move important," says Clark, "is that it takes the wealthy Negro away from the $500 and his name on the wall"-meaning the $500 life membership in the N.A.A.C.P., which gets the donor's name inscribed on a plaque at the organization's national headquarters in New York City...
...theology of indulgences in his sermons. His displeasure noticeably increased during 1517, when the Dominican John Tetzel was preaching throughout much of Germany on behalf of a papal fund-raising campaign to complete St. Peter's Basilica. In exchange for a contribution, Tetzel boasted, he would provide donors with an indulgence that would even apply beyond the grave and free souls from purgatory. "As soon as the coin in the coffer rings," went his jingle, "the soul from purgatory springs." To Luther, this was bad theology if not worse, and he promptly drew up his 95 theses.-Among other...