• Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
When Anthony and Shawn Raftopol, a gay married couple from Massachusetts, hired a Connecticut surrogate to give birth to their child, they didn’t expect to figure in a landmark ruling by the Connecticut Supreme Court.
But that’s what happened after the surrogate gave birth to twins, and the state Department of Health refused to issue a birth certificate bearing both men’s names as the legal parents. Instead Shawn, who had no biological connection to the twin boys, was told by the agency that he would have to go through a second parent adoption to be listed on the birth certificate.
