Jennifer Cramblett, 36, claims the mistake has caused her stress and anguish because her family is racist and she lives in a small, all-white Union town in northeast Ohio.
In a lawsuit filed this week in Cook County, Illinois, Ms Cramblett says Midwest Sperm Bank sent her several vials of a black man’s sperm by mistake because the clinic keeps paper records and accidentally transposed numbers on her order.
The couple had specifically chosen a white donor to be the father of their child.
Midwest Sperm Bank charged $400 per vial of semen and Ms Cramblett and her partner received six vials of the wrong semen.
The lawsuit says the clinic later sent Ms Cramblett an apology note and a refund for the six vials – though charged her for the vials of the correct semen she received.
Ms Cramblett she has ‘limited cultural competency relative to African-Americans’ and worries that her daughter Payton will not be accepted in her hometown of Uniontown.
‘Jennifer lives each day with fears, anxieties and uncertainty about her future and Payton’s future,’ according to the lawsuit.
Ms Cramblett, the assistant manager of an AT&T store, said she and her partner Amanda Zinkon love their daughter, who is now two years old, but say they must now consider moving to a more diverse community.
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