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| Subject: Rights violation: OZschwitz gays face surrogacy ban as LNP pushes civil union changes Thu Jun 21, 2012 6:50 pm | |
| The Queensland government will ban single people and same-sex couples from having a child through surrogacy, in a bombshell move announced during a fiery overnight debate on watering down same-sex civil unions.
In a move that will further inflame the anger of Queensland's LGBT community, Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie announced about 10.20pm that the government would introduce in the future a bill to reshape the altruistic surrogacy law. Advertisement: Story continues below
Mr Bleijie said the Newman government's law would be similar to the one proposed by the Liberal National Party's Lawrence Springborg several years ago, and would repeal Surrogacy Act provisions dealing with single people, same-sex couples, or any de facto couple that had been together for fewer than two years.
Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/gays-face-surrogacy-ban-as-lnp-pushes-civil-union-changes-20120621-20q9j.html#ixzz1yTGMpfIL
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