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February 20, 2013
More IVF treatment for gay couples and women over 40

New IVF guidelines helps same-sex couples receive free fertility treatment

More British gay couples may get greater access to IVF treatment on the National Health Service under new guidelines.

This means same-sex couples should receive less resistance when trying to access fertility treatment.

Previously there has been no explicit guidelines regarding same-sex couples.

February 18, 2013
Gay couples having children is child abuse, says anti-abortion group

New guidelines providing free IVF to same-sex couples and women over 40 is wrong, says Society for the Protection of Unborn Children

Gay couples having children is like child abuse, an anti-abortion group has said.

New treatment guidelines on in-vitro fertilization treatment by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Evidence (NICE) has got Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) furious.

SPUC manager Anthony Ozimic claims the guidelines 'ignores biology in the name of politically-correct social-engineering'. 

February 4, 2013
Court tells Israeli state: ease gay couples’ surrogacy process

Israel’s High Court tells lawmakers to speed up and legislate procedures for gay couples seeking surrogacy

The Israel High Court of Justice on Sunday recommended the state clarifies legal procedures for gay couples seeking surrogacy, as a legal framework does not exist and this amounts to discrimination.

The court ruling came yesterday (3 January) after it heard a case involving two gay male couples asking to be recognized as the parents of children born to surrogate mothers in the United States.

January 23, 2013
Gay couples giving homes to nearly half of Flanders' adopted kids

Six years after Belgium allowed homosexuals to adopt, 14 out of 30 children were given to gay couples

Gay couples are giving homes to almost half of adopted children in the Flanders area of Belgium.

The Flemish Center for Adoptions announced today (23 January) in 2012, 14 children went to gay couples and 16 went to straight ones.

By law, Belgian mothers are allowed to stop adoptions if they do not approve of the hopeful family.

A FCA spokesman said the numbers show the organizations in charge of adoptions are thinking without prejudice.

January 3, 2013
Hospital in Padua first to recognize gay parents

When a new baby is born, now the parents are indicated as 'partners' instead of 'mom' and 'dad'

A hospital in Padua, in northern Italy's Veneto region, has started to write on new parents’ bracelets ‘partner’ instead of ‘mom’ and ‘dad’.

The new move was requested by a lesbian couple who gave birth to a baby on New Year’s Eve, following an In Vitro Fertilisation abroad.

The two mothers would not accept a bracelet indicating one of them as a ‘dad’.

The Padua hospital, like all the hospitals in Italy, provides the bracelets when a new baby is born.

December 29, 2012
California law makes having children easier for lesbian couples

The bill AB 2356, known as the Sperm Donor Law, faced near to no opposition as it made its way through government

A California law will make it easier for gay couples to access same-sex couples to access fertility services on 1 January.

Originally only prioritized for straight couples, AB 2356 will ensure sperm donations will be available for all women.

Assembly member Nancy Skinner, who introduced the bill, said AB 2356 removes the obstacles LBT and single women faced when they sought medically-assisted insemination.

November 20, 2012
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Recorded inside a giant vagina. The team are joined by Rhyannon Styles to talk about her new show, Amy talks to trans salon Open Barbers.

Recorded inside a giant vagina. The team are joined by Rhyannon Styles to talk about her new show, Amy talks to trans salon Open Barbers.

Plus HIV prevention week, topless nuns in France and a new San Francisco Gay landmark.

October 3, 2012
British gay couple win right to raise twins after surrogate disappears

The British gay couple won the right to father twin boys after the anonymous surrogate Indian woman disappeared without giving her formal consent

A British gay couple have won the right to father twin boys after a surrogate Indian woman disappeared without giving her formal consent.

It is believed to be the first time that a court in England or Wales has made such an order without the consent of a birth mother.

The men, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were in limbo until Tuesday (2 October), when Mr Justice Baker granted them 'parental orders' after hearing that they had taken 'all reasonable steps' to find the anonymous mother.

August 2, 2012
How better condoms make sex safer

My mission to bring better fitting, safer condoms to the world through crowd-funding

I'm sure I don't have to tell you that when people don't like condoms, they don't use them – certainly not every time they should.

However, while this may not have been true a few years ago, these days, if you don’t absolutely love your condom, you are simply wearing the wrong one. Let me explain why.

For far too long people have believed that all condoms are one-size-fits-all and that all condoms are created equal.

It is time to bust these widespread condom myths once and for all.

July 30, 2012
Guide to help gay men avoid condom ‘mishaps’

Terrence Higgins Trust launch an online guide with tips to teach men the best way to use condoms

A UK sexual health charity has launched a guide to help gay and bisexual men prevent condom ‘mishaps’.

The Gay Men’s Guide to Condoms (Everything they didn’t teach you at school) teaches how men can best protect themselves and their partners from infection.

July 5, 2012
Right wing poster boy now supports gay rights

Jonathan Krohn, a former internet sensation among right wing Americans, says he isn’t a conservative anymore

A US teenager who once rallied against gay rights and abortion has now abandoned his right wing views in favor of same-sex marriage.

Jonathan Kohn was once dubbed 'Atlanta's most talented child' and wrote the book Defining Conservatism at the tender age of 13.

In the book he said opposition to abortion and gay rights are what conservatives are all about.

June 1, 2012
Australian dads recognized as joint gay parents

Gay dads have become the first same-sex couple in New South Wales, Australia to be recognized as joint parents on a surrogate-born child's birth certificate

Two gay dads have become the first same-sex couple in New South Wales (NSW), Australia to be recognized as parents on a birth certificate for a child conceived through surrogacy.

Surrogacy supporters have welcomed news that the two unnamed Sydney men have become the first gay couple in NSW to be the legally recognized as the parents of the two-year old child, who was conceived via a surrogate mother.

The Australian Supreme Court ruled the transfer of the child's guardianship was in the child's interest after finding the arrangement was legally legitimate.

April 27, 2012
Split lesbian couple ordered to share leftover sperm

A court in British Columbia, Canada, ruled that a former lesbian couple must divide sperm which they had left in a fertility clinic

A separated lesbian couple in Canada have been ordered by a court to share leftover sperm.

Despite dividing their assets when they split in 2006, the British Columbia couple forgot about the 13 vials, known as straws, of semen which they had frozen in a sperm bank.

However, in 2009 one of the women, identified in court by the initials JCM, wanted to use the sperm to have a baby with her new partner, the Vancouver Sun reported.

March 5, 2012
Lesbian court battle could redefine law on sperm, egg donors

Feuding lesbians in Florida spark global debate on motherhood

A lesbian who took the biological daughter of her partner to Australia has sparked a global debate on the question of motherhood and egg donors.

The American women, known only in the court papers as their initials, are both in their 30s and were police officers in Florida.

One partner donated an egg that was fertilized and implanted in the other, who gave birth in 2004, nine years into their relationship.

The couple separated two years later, and the birth mother eventually left without a trace taking the child with her.