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Johnson v. Calvert rules that a "gestational carrier" without a genetic link has no parental rights to the child they carry.

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In this case, the "gestational parent" is Black, and the biological father and mother are white. The court finds that a gestational carrier who does not have a genetic link to the child she is carrying has no parental rights to the child.