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Brian Tobin: Ireland’s approach to surrogacy law needs a rebirth
Ireland should follow a similar path to the UK s ongoing collaborative, robust reform process
A nurse takes care of babies born to surrogate mothers at a surrogate operation in Kyiv, Ukraine. Picture: Efrem Lukatsky/AP
Wed, 28 Apr, 2021 - 06:30
Brian Tobin
On Monday, April 26, the British All-Party Parliamentary Group on Surrogacy published its report on the understandings of the law and practice of surrogacy, in which it recommends reform.
Along with other experts, I had the pleasure of feeding into this law reform process during oral evidence sessions at Westminster in 2018.
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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.