Posted on 03/03/2005 12:37:56 PM PST by pissant
Swedish legislators are due to amend a law which would legalise fertilisation treatment for lesbian couples. The new provision, which is expected to pass easily before coming into force in July, will be available to lesbian couples joined in civil partnerships.
After the child is born, both women would be regarded as its mother.
Currently, artificial insemination is only available to heterosexual partners, requiring lesbian couples to go abroad for treatment.
"The basis for the bill is that lesbian couples will be on an equal footing with heterosexual couples when it comes to assisted fertilisation," the government said.
Liberal approach
Sweden has a liberal attitude towards homosexuals, although gay marriages remain illegal.
However, civil unions were introduced in Sweden for gays and lesbians in 1994 and adoption by gay couples is permitted.
"It means that lesbian couples are now accepted in the Swedish health care system on the same level as heterosexual couples," said Soeren Andersson, president of the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Rights.
"The big thing now is that the government has removed the rule that lesbian couples are not allowed to have in vitro fertilisation."
Under the present legislation, the state-run health system can only offer IVF treatment to women married to a man or living with a male partner.
European countries where assisted fertilisation is available to lesbian couples include Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, Great Britain, Russia, Ireland and Spain.
In Italy, stringent legislation restricting IVF treatment to heterosexual couples, introduced in March 2004, is due to be relaxed.
Kids need yin and yang, this is Braindead !
I'm actually quite a bit surprised this wasn't already the law in Sweden.
Give them (secularists) enough rope and they will hang themselves. I was raised in the divorce generation by liberal parents of the 60s and the biggest lesson I learned is that my parents values are wrong.
Keep the faith, soon there will be generations of children of gay parents who do not want their parents mistakes repeated.
Yumpin Yimminy....Ya sure is a bunch a carpet munchers ya betcha.
If I were a Swedish chick, I'd probably be a dyke. The men are wimps, after their Viking glory days anyway.
The people who pass these laws better watch out, a silent rage is building and no law is going to stop the outcome.
As the world sinks further into depravity.
I'm sure the government will start paying for it too.
Probably a "reform" that is going to defeat itself.
In the mid-eigthies it was legislated that children that resulted from a clinical insemination would have the right to know the name of the donor. As you can imagine the number of donors dropped dramatically.
Apparently, the "knowing your genes" is now reciprocal so that the donors are told who they are donating their sperms to. It is assumed (probably correctly) that most (of the remaining) donors will not chose a lesbian couple. (If for no other reasons than the likelihood that such a "couple" will break up is much higher than for a heterosexual couple, and the risk of the donor finding himself facing his issue 20 years hence is therefore much larger.)
Our limp wristed mainstream media would never publicize the results. I assume the studies would show devastating pictures of ruined lives.
I'm hoping that no matter how far they go in changing laws to accomplish their antifamily agenda, the natural law will triumph in the end somehow in actual practice.
Well, OK then.
The homos are pushing the envelope, all we need is a little anarchy and look out. Lots of psychos out there on both sides.
There have been multiple studies conducted and they routinely conclude that children raised by homosexual parents are no more or less emotionally healthy and psychologically stable than those raised by heterosexual parents. In any case, I don't have time to research the topic for you, but if you're interested I know where you can track them down. They feature prominently in the various same-sex marriage lawsuits at least in Hawaii, Vermont, and Massachusetts (that's where I read about them) and probably in all the rest as well (since that's always a major issue raised by the litigants).
If the studies hadn't indicated as much - especially if they demonstrated "devastating pictures of ruined lives" - then it's very unlikely any of those lawsuits would've succeeded as they did.
If you've got socialized medicine, everyone should get its benefits equally, I suppose.
Swedish ping
Except for the plumbing they all look the same over in Euroland.
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