Senator Sharon Carson is the state senator for the Republican towns of Auburn, Hudson, and Londonderry, New Hampshire and she is the prime sponsor for bill SB422 which would remove the words “mother” and “father” from birth records and replace them with “birth parent” and “non-birth parent.”
In her testimony for the bill, Sen. Carson said that it would help those using assisted reproduction and gamete donation so they wouldn’t have to go through the extra step of establishing parentage of the babies. That means that the baby is created in a test tube from an egg and a sperm and then implanted in a woman. The egg may be donated. The sperm may be donated and the pregnant woman may be a surrogate.
In my testimony I said:
Removing the words mother and father from birth records denies our very humanity. Every child has a mother and a father and this change would create a fiction that a child was created by two people who have may have nothing to do with his or her conception. This bill also furthers the lie that biological sex doesn’t matter when we know that only women can birth children and only men can father children.
In Cornerstone’s testimony, they pointed out this bill would allow the mother of a child to put anyone on the birth certificate as the “non-birth parent.” It could even be the child’s grandmother and it would cut out the father and leave him with no rights.
This bill puts adults’ needs over children’s needs, which is backward to the way it should be. Senator Carson is sponsoring this bill for the sake of corrupt special interests like GLAD and Dartmouth Health and not for the sake of protecting children.
Contact the Senate Judiciary Committee and ask them to vote ITL on SB422.
“We should strive to prevent situations where a child is separated from a birth mother or birth father, not give them legitimacy.” @BethRS62 testifies against SB422, which would remove the words “mother” and “father” from birth records. #NHPolitics pic.twitter.com/0GVBrvq1w1
— Sidewalk Steve (@Sidewalk_Steve) February 8, 2024
