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‘Is It Because of Brexit?’ and other things you hear on the road to IVF

‘Is It Because of Brexit?’ and other things you hear on the road to IVF

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 […]

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Project Management: Researching options on the road to parenthood

Project Management: Researching options on the road to parenthood

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 […]

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Great Expectations: LGBTIQ+ obstacles on the road to IVF

Great Expectations: LGBTIQ+ obstacles on the road to IVF

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 […]

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Dodging the donor you know on the road to IVF

Dodging the donor you know on the road to IVF

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 […]

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Singaporean court rejects man’s bid to adopt son he fathered by surrogate

Singaporean court rejects man’s bid to adopt son he fathered by surrogate

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 […]

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Many pathways to creating a family, or helping others create theirs

Many pathways to creating a family, or helping others create theirs

“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 […]

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Lyle Shelton: There’s hardly any homophobia in Australia

Lyle Shelton: There’s hardly any homophobia in Australia

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 […]

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Ian Goodenough accuses colleagues of using a ‘kamikaze’ approach

Ian Goodenough accuses colleagues of using a ‘kamikaze’ approach

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 […]

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Dolce and Gabbana Respond to Elton John Boycott

Dolce and Gabbana Respond to Elton John Boycott

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 […]

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