Posted on 08/30/2009 10:16:17 PM PDT by Steelfish
Lesbians given equal birth rights
Many lesbian couples have used fertility treatments to start a family Women in same-sex relationships can now register both their names on the birth certificate of a child conceived as a result of fertility treatment.
Female couples not in a civil partnership but receiving fertility treatment may also both be registered.
The law change applies to female couples in England and Wales who were having fertility treatment on or after 6 April 2009.
Previously, the mother's female partner could not be registered as a parent. But the change in the law confers legal parenthood on the mother's female partner.
According to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, there were 728 lesbians who underwent in vitro fertilisation (IVF) between 1999 and 2006. And in the same period, there were 5,211 lesbian females who received donor insemination (DI) treatment.
Now lesbian couples in the UK who make a considered decision to start a loving family will finally be afforded equal access to services they help fund as taxpayers Ruth Hunt, Stonewall
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So government funded babies for Lesbians if I understand the impact of this article?
Why mess the children’s future up? They’ll be like Obama never being able to show their birth certificate.
It’s going to be fun to do genealogy research in a 100 years. As it is now in England, I’ve got so many second cousins there where their “partner” (mostly the fathers of the child) is question mark.
The birth certificate will include both (not just one female as before) female parents.
Until two Lesbos, without the help of a third party, can create a child together, they can never have “Equal Birth Rights.”
No matter how much envy of men these dykes possess, they cannot do what I can do, and that is procreate.
They may be a Hyena and have a mock one, but they can never the listed as FATHER on a Birth Certificate.
Discrimination against vagitarians is just plain WRONG!
“Discrimination against vagitarians is just plain WRONG!”
Why not?!! It doesn’t seem vagitarians are very discriminating.
Odd because a lot of gays don’t want marriage.
>Odd because a lot of gays don’t want marriage.
Why then was it such a big deal in CA?
It’s the troublemakers that want it. It’s more of a payback than anything.
It’s also those gay or not that wish to destroy America.
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