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Pages tagged "Surrogacy"


NSW Labor Government rams through “Equality” Bill erasing protections for women and children

Posted on News · October 18, 2024 4:38 PM

By Rachael Wong

New South Wales Parliamentarians, predominantly independent MP Alex Greenwich followed by his merry band of Labor and Greens MPs, have succeeded in erasing women’s rights and protections in NSW and beyond.

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Amended Equality Bill still endangers women and children

Posted on News · October 15, 2024 5:04 PM

Today, we sent the below letter to NSW Premier Chris Minns and Members of the NSW Parliament about the grave concerns that Women's Forum Australia, our supporters and the NSW community, continue to have with regard to independent MP Alex Greenwich's Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023 and his recently proposed amendments:

 

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Media release: “Equality” Bill overwhelmingly rejected by NSW residents

Posted on News · June 03, 2024 8:38 PM

Today, the NSW Parliament’s Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Community Services tabled its report inquiring into Independent MP Alex Greenwich’s Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023, recommending that Parliament proceeds to consider the Bill.

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Allowing NSW residents to buy babies overseas will exploit the most vulnerable

Posted on News · February 09, 2024 10:00 AM

By Renate Klein

In his offensively titled ‘Equality Bill’, NSW Independent MP Alex Greenwich proposes to – among other things – circumvent the federal ban on commercial surrogacy within Australia.

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The shameful trade of women and children: Why there’s no place for Alex Greenwich’s regressive surrogacy reforms in NSW

Posted on News · February 07, 2024 2:41 PM

By Stephanie Bastiaan

This week, New South Wales is set to debate Independent MP Alex Greenwich’s Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023, a component of which seeks to decriminalise overseas commercial surrogacy. While altruistic surrogacy is legal throughout Australia, commercial surrogacy remains illegal (due to concerns regarding the exploitation of women and children), and in NSW, this includes procuring commercial surrogacy arrangements overseas. Greenwich has long been an advocate for surrogacy.

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Canberra couple access commercial surrogacy overseas, despite practice being illegal in ACT

Posted on News · June 15, 2022 4:36 PM

The Weekend Australian recently featured on its front page a story about the journey Canberra couple Emma and Alex Micallef have undergone to commission a baby in Ukraine. It detailed the obstacles they have experienced along the way, including the logistics of managing such an arrangement in the midst of the country’s ongoing invasion at the hands of Russia (“Miracle of life delivered in a war-torn land far away”).

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Northern Territory surrogacy laws put children last

Posted on News · June 07, 2022 4:02 PM

New surrogacy laws in the Northern Territory that allow adults to commission a child claim to be underpinned by the “principle of the paramountcy of the best interests of the child”. Such a claim is clearly incompatible with an enterprise that will certainly involve separating a child from its gestational mother at birth. What the legislation does – but seems reluctant to say – is that it will prioritise the wish of adults to acquire a child, even though this necessarily involves compromising the interests of the child who, of course, has no say in the arrangements made to “commission” their conception. If the child’s interests enter the equation at all, it can only be after the fact.

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Twins born to surrogate not picked up after 14 months

Posted on News · May 18, 2022 2:23 PM

The distressing story of 14 month old twins born to a surrogate in the United States who have yet to be picked up by their commissioning parents has highlighted the fraught nature of surrogacy, especially for the children involved, who are often the biggest losers at the heart of such arrangements.

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First single man has a baby through surrogacy in Victoria

Posted on News · April 07, 2022 2:21 PM

44-year-old Shaun Resnik has become the first single man to have a baby through surrogacy in Victoria, in what is being celebrated as “history-making”, “a beacon of hope for other singles”, and “a dream come true”.

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Ukrainian surrogacy nightmare continues for Australian couples, but aren’t we forgetting something?

Posted on News · March 15, 2022 5:31 PM

Last week we wrote about how stories of desperate couples trying to reach their surrogate babies in war-torn Ukraine underscored the ethical issues with the surrogacy industry itself, which exploits and harms women and children.

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