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Do Both Parties In A Lesbian Marriage Have Equal Rights?

According to the Uppsala health authority, only one woman in a lesbian couple has the right to insemination. After three attempts to get pregnant by insemination, one woman in a lesbian relationship become ineligible for further attempts since she passed the maximum age stipulated by the Uppsala health authority. Her younger party then decided she would try to become pregnant in her place, but this request was denied y the Uppsala University Hospital. In their view, “As we see it we have treated them as a couple. Should you have double the number of opportunities to get pregnant just because you are a lesbian couple?”

The Ombudsman Against Discrimination responded to the question by supporting the right of a lesbian couple to each have opportunities to become pregnant and dismissed the claim by the hospital to only provide treatment of one individual as discrimination.

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Denmark Expands Gay Adoption Rights

New legislation that shortly will pass the Danish legislature will allow gay couples equal rights in being able to adopt children from other nations. Homosexuals who are registered as being a legal partnership already are allowed to adopt Danish children. Recent legislation now enables lesbians equal rights when it comes to issues of artificial insemination. There had been strong opposition to changes in adoption of foreign children due to fear it might lead these countries to take Denmark off the approved adoption list. However, Sweden passed similar laws in 2003 that empowered gays to adopt foreign children and it has not led to any changes in children being adopted.

The essence of adoption is providing children a decent family life. If gays or lesbians can provide such an environment then both the child and society benefit.