Category: artificial insemination

Sex and the erasure of legal parenthood: P v Q and F (child: legal parentage) [2024] EWCA civ 878 – Journal of Scial Welfare and Family Law

Posted October 17th, 2024 in appeals, artificial insemination, birth certificates, families, news by sally

‘Imagine a scenario in which a same sex female married couple, P and Q, decide to become parents together. They find a sperm donor (F) online, and after two unsuccessful attempts at insemination, P conceives and gives birth to a daughter, X. Happily for P and Q, the law in the UK was changed in 2008 in order to enable both of them to be registered as X’s parents on her birth certificate, P as her mother and Q as her second legal parent. Three years later, P and Q’s relationship breaks down. While we are used to the law stepping in to resolve questions about money and the child’s living arrangements, in relation to a same sex female couple, UK law also does something completely extraordinary. It enables the mother to have the second legal parent’s name removed from the birth certificate, and replaced with that of the sperm donor.’

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Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 16th October 2024

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The ‘Syringe Method’ of Surrogacy and the Law – Family Law Week

Posted January 6th, 2023 in artificial insemination, children, families, family courts, news, pregnancy, surrogacy by tracey

‘Nathan Baylis, a pupil barrister at 4 Brick Court, provides a guide to the legal recognition of at-home artificial insemination in surrogacy arrangements.’

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Family Law Week, 15th December 2022

Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk

The ‘Syringe Method’ of Surrogacy and the Law – Family Law

Posted December 16th, 2022 in artificial insemination, children, families, family courts, news, pregnancy, surrogacy by tracey

‘Nathan Baylis, a pupil barrister at 4 Brick Court, provides a guide to the legal recognition of at-home artificial insemination in surrogacy arrangements.’

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Family Law Week, 15th December 2022

Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk

IVF Access To Widen After Discrimination Case – Each Other

Posted August 9th, 2022 in artificial insemination, equality, families, homosexuality, human rights, news, pregnancy, sexual orientation discrimination by sally

‘Lesbians, bi women and some trans people will no longer have to pay more for IVF treatment after a landmark discrimination case. Lesbian couple Megan and Whitney Bacon-Evans launched a legal case showing that NHS England’s IVF policy discriminated against same-sex couples. Unlike heterosexual couples, some LGBTQ couples and single women have had to pay for artificial insemination to prove their fertility status before they can receive NHS help for IVF.’

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Each Other, 9th August 2022

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ThoughtLeaders4 HNW Divorce: The Legal Implications of Donor Insemination – Pump Court Chambers

Posted August 13th, 2020 in artificial insemination, chambers articles, children, families, news, parental responsibility, parental rights by sally

‘From single-parent families to “blended” or extended family units, whether they be same-sex parents or opposite-sex parents, the concept of the “nuclear family” has become less prevalent, and less apt, to describe modern families in the 21st century. Today’s modern family structures include those where children are created through assisted reproductive technologies and encompass sperm/ egg/embryo donation, or children born via a surrogate or are adopted. Despite dedicated legislation in the form of HEFA 1990 and 2008, the law is in a permanent state of catch-up with the advances in medical reproductive technologies. Novel legal issues are emerging, which the law has had to respond to, and grapple with.’

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Pump Court Chambers, 12th August 2020

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Sperm donor ordered to pay maintenance for child after judge rules he is the father – The Independent

Posted July 29th, 2013 in artificial insemination, child support, family courts, internet, news, parental responsibility by sally

“A professional man registered as a sperm donor on a website and advertised his willingness to participate in a ‘breeding party, ie a male-dominated orgy designed to get a woman pregnant’, a High Court judge said today.”

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The Independent, 26th Juyl 2013

Source: www.independent.co.uk

Insemination case: Chances missed to check on adopted daughter – BBC News

Posted June 5th, 2013 in adoption, artificial insemination, child cruelty, complaints, news, social services by sally

“A review into how a mother was able to force her adopted child to impregnate herself has found agencies missed opportunities to intervene.”

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BBC News, 5th June 2013

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Girl, 14, forced to become pregnant with donor sperm bought by mother – The Guardian

Posted April 29th, 2013 in adoption, artificial insemination, child cruelty, news, pregnancy, sentencing, social services by tracey

“A mother forced her 14-year-old adopted daughter to inseminate herself with donor sperm to provide a baby for her after she was prevented from adopting any more children, it can be revealed. The daughter, a virgin, is believed to have miscarried at 14, but went on to have a baby at 16 after regularly inseminating herself with sperm bought over the internet by her ‘domineering’ mother because she was too scared to refuse. Details of the shocking case have emerged in a previously secret court judgment, which can be reported today for the first time and which raises serious questions over loopholes in international adoptions and the regulation of the global traffic in gametes.”

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The Guardian, 28th April 2013

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Children and same sex families: known biological fathers and contact: the decision in S v D and E / T v X and Y [2013] EWHC – Zenith Chambers

Posted March 6th, 2013 in artificial insemination, civil partnerships, contact orders, news, parental rights by sally

“Where do parents and prospective parents stand after the very recent decision in the case of S v D and E? What can parenting lesbian mothers and the men who donate sperm to enable them to have children expect if there is a disagreement between them as to the role of biological fathers in their children’s lives?”

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Zenith Chambers, 14th February 2013

Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk

Gay sperm donor told to pay child maintenance for ‘his’ two children – The Guardian

Posted October 29th, 2012 in artificial insemination, child support, news, paternity by sally

“A gay man from Essex who donated his sperm to enable a lesbian couple to have two children, but who was never named on their birth certificate and had no role in their upbringing, is being forced by the Child Support Agency to pay for their support – 13 years after the first child was born.”

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The Guardian, 26th October 2012

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

The child with two mothers and two fathers who went to court over her – The Guardian

Posted October 12th, 2011 in artificial insemination, children, families, news, parental responsibility, parental rights by sally

“A high court judge’s ruling reveals the importance of deciding on parental roles before embarking on artificial insemination.”

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The Guardian, 11th October 2011

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Internet sperm agencies plan to sidestep new rules – The Guardian

Posted April 30th, 2007 in artificial insemination, news by sally

“As the government’s regulatory body prepares to stamp out the thriving business in online fresh sperm donation, the Guardian has learned that both of the UK’s main agencies are planning to circumvent new laws and continue to operate without a licence.”

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The Guardian, 30th April 2007

Source: www.guardian.co.uk