Supreme Court Overturns Arkansas Restriction on Same-Sex Parents

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that Arkansas authorities must list the names of both same-sex parents on their child's birth certificate.

The court ruled 6-3 in favor of two married same-sex couples who conceived their children through anonymous sperm donations. They sued after the state said it would put only the name of the birth mother on the birth certificate but not her female spouse.

The court said Arkansas has chosen "to make its birth certificates more than a marker of biological relationships: the state uses those certificates to give married parents a form of legal recognition to unmarried parents."

Based on the Supreme Court's earlier decision on same-sex marriage, the court said, Arkansas cannot deny married same-sex couples that recognition.

Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote a dissent, joined by Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

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