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(WASHINGTON) The State Department will now grant U.S. citizenship to children born overseas to same-sex and heterosexual American couples through in vitro fertilization, surrogacy and other assisted reproductive technology, the agency said Tuesday, notifying all U.S. posts overseas and Congress of the historic change.
The new policy comes after the agency has recently faced several lawsuits brought by same-sex couples suing for their children s citizenship losing two federal cases last year.
The Trump administration had been fighting those losses, including by filing an appeal last August, and defending what had been longstanding U.S. policy that considered children born abroad to a surrogate to be born out of wedlock even when a couple was married.
State Dept ends policy denying US citizenship to children born through in vitro, surrogacy
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PORTSMOUTH A former Scioto County correctional officer is facing a murder charge in connection with the death of 56-year-old Kevin Bailey in May 2020.
On April 16, a Scioto County grand jury returned a three-count indictment against Billy Thompson on charges of murder, voluntary manslaughter and reckless homicide. Bailey was arraigned Tuesday and released on a $100,000 signature bond.
Thompson is accused of slamming Bailey to the ground during a May 25, 2020, struggle inside the Scioto County jail, according to a press release from the Ohio Attorney Generalâs Office. Bailey died June 1, 2020.
An autopsy report obtained by the Scioto County Daily News lists the cause of death as complications resulting from blunt force trauma to head, neck and torso and the manner of death as a homicide. The report states the medical examiner found bruising on his temporal lobe, his ribs and his lungs, as well as a skull fracture and a fracture on his collar bone.