Blog posts from February 2011

Court upholds ban on anti-gay foster carers

28 February, 2011

The High Court has backed a council’s decision to bar a couple from fostering children because they oppose homosexuality.Pentecostal Christians Eunice and Owen Johns, of Derby, were told by the city council in 2007 that a fostering panel had...

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Gay fathers fear following India's surrogacy ban

26 February, 2011

Gay father Barrie Drewitt Barlow revealed how six gay couples are in a "huge panic" over India's recent ban of surrogacy to gay couples.Mr Drewitt Barlow, who runs the British Surrogacy Centre with his partner Tony have said “e...

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India to ban gay couples from surrogacy arrangements

25 February, 2011

India is to ban gay couples from using surrogate mothers. As part of reforms to the country’s surrogacy and fertility treatment laws, only heterosexual couples will be allowed to have children by surrogate.The Assisted Reproductive Technolog...

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Gay and lesbian parenting research - can you help?

23 February, 2011

Would you like to take part in some cutting edge, exciting new research?Emilie Garvey, an undergraduate Sociology student at Newcastle University, is interested in hearing from lesbian and gay individuals and couples to take part in an exciting pr...

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Surrogate mother gives birth to her own grandchild

21 February, 2011

A 61-year-old woman gave birth to her grandson in February because her daughter couldn't maintain a pregnancy. Kristine Casey, who may be the oldest woman to give birth to her grandson, volunteered to act as a surrogate after her daughter, Sar...

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Sperm shortage in Australia calls to lift ban on imports

19 February, 2011

VICTORIA Australia is so short of sperm donors that some women are flying interstate for IVF treatment, prompting calls to ease restrictions on importing sperm.Fertility doctors say demand for sperm has surged since laws giving single women and le...

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Sperm donors online: Are there emotional and physical risks?

17 February, 2011

The following recent article by the Daily Mail highlights the risks both physically and emotionally of sleeping with a sperm donor met online. As a single woman any donor would be classed as the child’s legal father and could be held financi...

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Surrogacy, parenthood and disputes: are there any lessons to be learned?

15 February, 2011

Surrogacy has been around for many years and disputes rarely arise. There have only been a handful of published cases in the English courts where a surrogacy arrangement has gone wrong. However, the recently published case of TT (a Minor) [1] rece...

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Select your baby's sex for £14,000: British couples being sent to Cyprus by UK fertility doctor for sex selection

13 February, 2011

A leading NHS fertility doctor is making money by sending couples abroad to choose the sex of their unborn baby – a procedure that is illegal in Britain.Gynaecologist Charles Kingsland, clinical director of Britain’s largest NHS fertil...

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Zack Wahls defends gay marriage and being raised by lesbian mums

11 February, 2011

Zach Wahls a 19-year-old University of Iowa engineering student defended gay marriage in a rousing testimony in front of the Iowa House of Representatives this month. Zack Wahls spoke out against a resolution which would end civil unions in Iowa b...

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