The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away Indiana’s attempt to strip equal parenting rights from married same-sex couples.
The court’s decision to deny certiorari in the case Box v. Henderson ensures that same-sex couples in Indiana will remain the lawful parents of their own children, ending the state’s six-year-long crusade to remove their names from their children’s birth certificates.
Monday’s order also suggests that a majority of the court’s nine justices aren’t eager to roll back marriage equality. According to Slate: “Box v.
Henderson involves eight married lesbian couples in Indiana who conceived through artificial insemination. When a married opposite-sex couple uses a sperm donor, the birth mother’s husband is listed as the