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One of the things you do when you ‘decide’ to do IVF is attend two counselling sessions, scheduled and provided by the clinic. These sessions are compulsory, and we had attended our first a while back so our expectations were appropriately low. Approaching this whole process philosophically, Partner and I have generally been able to […]
Tags: IVF, parenthood, parenting
20 Feb 2019 /
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I guess because neither of us actually ever expected to attempt to have a child, we hadn’t given much thought, prior to now, about the technicalities of how to look after a baby. A pro-Googler with the impressive enthusiasm of someone at the start of a project they’ll not necessarily finish, I took it upon […]
Tags: breastfeeding, IVF, parenting, sign language
14 Sep 2018 |
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I’m aware that I live in a bubble, believe me. It didn’t create itself and it didn’t happen overnight. My media consumption (social and otherwise) is tailored to within an inch of its life. Interactions with family members and heterosexual friends are strictly regulated. Most of my friends are, in fact, ‘gay’. My workplace is […]
Tags: children, family, IVF, parenting
31 Aug 2018 |
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Most people don’t ask. Or if they do, it’s vague. ‘Are you going through a clinic, or…?’ We provide an equally vague, sanitised reply: ‘Oh, we had originally thought we’d go with a known donor, and we got quite far down that path with a friend but in the end we decided it wasn’t the […]
Tags: donor, IVF, Lesbian, parenting
23 Jul 2018 |
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A Singaporean court has rejected a man’s bid to adopt a child he fathered via a surrogate. The man paid US$200,000 to a US based surrogate to father a child. He provided sperm and the child was created via artificial insemination, but despite being the child’s biological father the court has refused to formally recognise […]
Tags: Adoption, gay, IVF, Singapore, Surrogacy
28 Dec 2017 |
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“A lot of gay men think they can’t be sperm donors.” said Belinda Wooffitt the Donor Coordinator at Fertility North. “Because they can’t be blood donors, they think they also can’t be sperm donors, but they can.” Helping people who want to have children by becoming a sperm donor is something that many men from […]
Tags: Families, Fertility North, IVF, Sperm Donation
3 Dec 2017 |
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Lyle Shelton, from the Australian Christian Lobby, and Karina Okotel, Vice President of the Liberal Party, spoke at the National Press Club today to outline their opposition to marriage equality. Last week The YES campaign put forward their case for change, and a week later it was the turn of the NO campaign to deliver […]
Tags: ACL, Adoption, AIDS, Australian Christian Lobby, Buzzfeed, freedom of speech, HIV, IVF, Karina Okotel, kissing, Lane Sainty, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, Liberal, Lyle Shelton, Marriage, marriage equaity, National Press Club, Nuns, Paul Karp, queer, radical sex education, rainbow family, religious freedom, safe schools, Same Sex Marriage, St Vincents, traditional marriage
13 Sep 2017 |
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Western Australian Liberal MP Ian Goodenough has accused colleague Senator Dean Smith and other MPs pushing for a free vote on marriage equality of using ‘kamikaze tactics’. Speaking to the ABC the member for Moore which covers Perth’s northern suburbs Goodenough said he had concerns about the proposed bill on marriage equality because it didn’t […]
Tags: gay marriage, Health, honeymoon, Ian Goodenough. Moore, IVF, kamikaze, Marriage, Same Sex Marriage
7 Aug 2017 |
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Fashion designers Dolce and Gabbana have responded to singer Elton John’s call for a boycott of the brand. Domenico Dolce sparked controversy with comments he made regarding reproduction in an interview with Panorama magazine. “You are born and you have a father and a mother,” he said. “Or at least that’s the way it should […]
Tags: Boycott, Dolce and Gabbana, Elton John, IVF, parenting, Surrogacy
18 Mar 2015 |
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