Presuming women: Revisiting the presumption of legitimacy in the same-sex couples era

Governor Mitt Romney's administration is advising [Massachusetts] hospitals to cross out the word father on birth certificates for the children of same-sex couples and instead write the phrase "second parent," angering gay and lesbian advocates and city and town clerks who warn that the altered documents could be legally questionable.... So far, only lesbian couples have been affected, advocates said. ¹ On a spring morning not long ago, Lura Stiller sat in her stocking feet in a sunny cottage in Cambridge, Mass., helping Gary Friedman and his partner, Rick Wellisch, calm their daughter, a 3-month-old in a pink T-shirt.... In December, Ms. Stiller [a homemaker from Dallas] gave birth to the baby, named Samantha, for Dr. Friedman and Dr. Wellisch, conceived with a donor egg and the sperm from one of the partners. (They chose not to know which.) In her decision to work with them Ms. Stiller is part of a small but growing movement of surrogate mothers choosing gay couples over traditional families. ².