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May 10, 2013
Brazil guarantees assisted reproduction for gay couples

The Federal Council of Medicine fixed a law’s wording to ensure same-sex couples’ access to assisted reproduction

Brazil has guaranteed that gay couples across the country have access to assisted fertilization.

According to Brazilian news website Globo.com, the Federal Council of Medicine (CFM) has adjusted the vague wording in an existing law that some courts used to block same-sex couples from using in-vitro fertilization and other assisted fertilization methods.

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'. 

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.

May 22, 2012
Gay couples 'should be given IVF on NHS'

Health experts in UK recommend giving same-sex couples fertility treatment on the National Health Service

Gay couples in the UK should be able to receive fertility treatment on the National Health Service, according to a study by British health experts.

The draft guidelines by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), published today, say same-sex partners should be given access to IVF treatment, updating recommendations made in 2004.

May 8, 2012
Gay men urged to give sperm to help aspiring mothers

Thanks to gay community, waiting times for women have been cut by 16 months

Australian gay men are being urged to help aspiring mothers by donating their sperm in a new recruitment drive.

According to a leading IVF specialist, women were waiting up to 18 months a year ago before they could begin having fertility treatment.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that thanks to the recruitment drive, improved supplies from overseas and advertisements in gay media, the waiting period has been cut to eight weeks.