Richmond, Va. (AP) – A Virginia lesbian couple has won a legal fight to have both of their names listed on their twins’ birth certificates.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that a Richmond judge recently ordered the Virginia Department of Health’s Office of Vital Records to amend the birth certificates to show that Maria Hayman and her wife, Joanie Hayman, are the children’s parents.
Maria Hayman delivered the twins in June 2013. Joanie Hayman contributed the eggs after they were fertilized with sperm from a donor who revoked his parental life.
Joanie Hayman’s name couldn’t be listed on the twins’ birth certificate. Under the Virginia Code, egg donors don’t have parental rights.
