Washington Blade reporter Chris Johnson asked her why the State Department keeps appealing court decisions that order it to recognize birthright citizenship for children of married same-sex couples born abroad through assisted reproductive technology, even though both spouses are U.S.
citizens.“That pertained to surrogacy; it had nothing to do with sexual orientation of the parents,” McEnany said. But the facts tell a different story.In the latest decision, which came Thursday from a federal court in Georgia, U.S.
District Judge Michael L. Brown ruled that the administration must recognize the citizenship since birth of Simone Mize-Gregg, born two years ago in England via surrogacy to married couple Derek Mize and Jonathan Gregg.