What would you do if a man who is not the biological father of your son
sued to become his “legal” father?
That’s what is happening to Cheri Bergeron and she needs our help to fight back.
Click here to sign her petition and learn how you can help her change Texas law.
Cheri’s Choice is a nonprofit organization started in 2024.
Its mission is to provide education, counseling, and community support for women pursuing unconventional paths to motherhood.
The organization plans to launch services by the end of 2025, and will strive to change the laws in Texas that are hostile to women.
Every woman needs to hear about Cheri’s fight to defend her son — and her rights to choose to become a mother, even without a man in her life.
In 2014, Cheri Bergeron had been legally separated from her husband, Clay Saunders for two years. They had one daughter together. Sadly, they had also suffered the loss of two other children.
Cheri wanted a bigger family. She wanted another child, so she made a choice. Her choice.
She informed her estranged husband that she intended to become pregnant through In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). He did not object.
She became pregnant with an anonymous sperm donor and gave birth to her son in May 2015.
Her estranged husband filed legal documents in 2016 to declare that he was not the father.
Then, 37 months later, Clay Saunders changed his mind and sued to gain parental rights over Cheri’s son.
On December 12, 2019, a Travis County judge ordered Clay Saunders to take a DNA test to prevent him from becoming the legal father of her 4-year-old boy. He was seeking parentage over the objections of Cheri Bergeron, the child’s natural mother.
Cheri needs your help to defend her son and her right to become a mother on her own.