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In November of 2010, Just Out profiled an
unprecedented legal battle between Sondra
Shineovich and Sarah Kemp over two chil-
dren, referred to here as Paul and Agatha,
Kemp conceived both children through artifi-
cial insemination while the two were partners.
But after they separated, Kemp limited Shin-
eovich’s access to one child and denied her ac-
cess to the other. Shineovich filed a lawsuit
arguing that non-biological partners who con-
sent to artificial insemina-
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tion are legal parents, re-
gardless of their gender, living on pins
due to an agreement now being finalized
Kemp shares the children with her ex 50 per-
cent of the time during the summers, and 40
percent of the time the rest of the year.
“I feel like I’m seen as a traitor,” said Kemp,
“I t’s really not like that.”
Kemp doesn’t see her story as a civil rights
issue, hut one about domestic violence. Only
now is she fully willing to speak with friends,
family and the media about her side of the
been
story, one that involves
what she claims was an
and needles abusive relationship that
sexual orientation or marital and in the Center of chaos she tried to protect her
children from.
status. At the time, Oregon’s ,
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,
for years. It s time for us
statutes were unclear. Do-
Kemp was 19 years old
to
be
normal
and
happy
and Shineovich was 32
mestic partnerships,parental
judgments and birth certifi and to move on and to
when the couple began dat
cates were often insufficient
ing in the late ‘90s. They
stop the fight.”
to guarantee non-biological
started a business, bought a
-SARAH KEMP
parents access to children
home and in the court’s
when relationships ended. That changed in eyes, began a family together as a couple. But
2009 when the Oregon Supreme Court sided according to Kemp, after the first four years,
with Shineovich and decided that laws gov- the relationship went had. Kemp claims she
erning insemination for “husband and wife” suffered repeated and sustained verbal and
applied to same-sex couples as well.
physical abuse, and that by the time their first
While some regarded the decision as a child Paul was born, they were a couple in
breakthrough, Shineovich and Kemp are only name alone.
now just settling their legal dispute. This Octo-
“She was essentially an abusive roommate,”
bet, Just Out checked back to see what impact said Kemp, now 33, who claims she was too
the dispute has had on them, their children and young, and too terrified, to talk about the real
same-sex parents in Oregon.
nature of their relationship with others or to
leave. “It got to the point where I would say
Sarah’s side
[to myself],‘I’m never going to get out of this.’
Sarah Kemp lives with her new partner, So, the children were the one thing that could
Carmy Roberts, in the Rockwood section of be mine. Having babies was all I had.”
Gresham. Even after the settlement, she con-
According to Kemp, it wasn’t until she was
tinues to have sole custody of the children, but pregnant for the second time that she found
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