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“The fact you’re adopting your own blood, it’s just a massive waste of resources that could have been better allocated to people that need it,” Craig Catley says of the surrogacy process in New Zealand. The pair made an arrangement to create, and co-parent the child with a lesbian couple. But after three attempts, they gave up. The women moved to Australia. About a year later, Cameron and David saw an online post about a girl’s death; she looked familiar to David, who was the sperm donor in what he thought were failed attempts at conception. The women admitted they had become pregnant, but wanted to keep the child for themselves.
Where are Indiaâs queer parents? Having a family is not even an option for many Indians
The fight that started with de-criminalising Section 377 must not end there â it is a battle half won. Many queer couples in India want to raise children but canât.
Tarini Mehta 21 February, 2021 8:30 am IST Text Size:
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Ask Indians what matters most to them and they are likely to say, my family. But in an India that places the family at the centre of the universe, itâs strange that not all Indians get to have one.
How many queer parents have you come across at adoption centres, parent-teacher meetings or even eating ice cream with their children at the mall? The fight that started with de-criminalising Section 377 must not end there â it is a battle half won. And what began as revocation of a ban must now expand to a full realisation of civil rights. Otherwise, the slide is always a looming danger.
The East African
Monday February 15 2021
Kenyan MP Martha Wangari sponsored The Employment (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which sought to provide maternity and paternity leave to parents of a child born as a result of surrogacy. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
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A sly game of legislative cat and mouse happened in Kenya this past week. President Uhuru Kenyatta returned to parliament a bill titled The Employment (Amendment) Bill, 2019.
It sounds dry and boring, so it is easy not to read beyond the title. Big mistake, as you’d miss the juice. The Bill, sponsored by MP Martha Wangari, sought to provide two months leave to mothers of a child born as a result of surrogacy and two weeks paternity leave to the father.
Lesbian Couples Race to Change Law, Appear on Birth Certificate
Current Gibraltar law recognizes only the mother carrying the child as a parent. February 02 2021 1:59 PM EST
Gibraltar Chronicle they are hopeful the proposed Surrogacy Bill, which will make the necessary changes to existing law, will be passed in time for the birth of their child.
“As a Lesbian married couple, we jointly and lovingly embarked on the IVF process to grow our family,” the couple posted to Facebook. “It is absolutely heartbreaking the thought that our family is not afforded the same legal standing as heterosexual families here in Gibraltar.”
In commercial surrogacy, the woman who gives birth to a child for the intending couple is rewarded for it in cash or kind. According to the Bill, if an individual is found advertising or undertaking surrogacy, exploiting the surrogate mother, selling, importing, purchasing or trading human embryos or gametes for surrogacy, conducting sex selection for surrogacy, or has abandoned, exploited or disowned a surrogate child, he/she can be imprisoned for up to 10 years and fined of up to Rs 10 lakh. A close relative of the couple A married woman with a child of her own, aged 25-35 (She can be a surrogate mother only once in her lifetime)