Watch: Here’s The Moment Two Michigan Moms Learn Their Case Just Won Them The Right To Marry
Jayne and April DeBoer-Rowse just wanted the right for each of them to be able to jointly adopt the three children they nursed back to health from the hospital at which they both work as nurses. Michigan’s ban on joint adoption ruled that basic right out of the question, so they decided to sue their home state. When Judge Bernard Friedman suggested they would have a stronger case if they sued to overturn the state’s 2004 ban — put in place at the ballot box by voters — the two nurses had a big decision to make.
They decided to move forward and sue to overturn the ban.
Today, at 5:00 PM EDT, April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse, sitting in their kitchen with their attorney, Dana Nessel, listened to her read the judge’s decision that overturned Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage.
Watch as these two wonderful nurses, who have given everything for their three adopted, special needs children, learn they will be able to jointly adopt them, and to marry.
For more on the jug’s decision, read:
Breaking: Federal Judge Just Ruled Michigan’s Ban On Same-Sex Marriage Is Unconstitutional
Watch:
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