Court Opinion

ID: 9880307
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-27 19:12:04.617196+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:55:55.548374
License: Public Domain

MANSFIELD, Justice
(concurring specially).
The Iowa Department of Public Health accepts the decision in Varnum v. Brien, 763 N.W.2d 862 (Iowa 2009), for purposes of this appeal. I agree that if Vamum is the law, then Iowa Code section 144.13(2) cannot be constitutionally applied to deny Melissa Gartner’s request to be listed as parent on the birth certificate of the child delivered by her same-sex spouse. Accordingly, I concur in the judgment in this case.
WATERMAN, J., joins this, special concurrence.