When can a donor be a legal parent? The latest High Court ruling doesn’t make it clear how much involvement a donor needs to have.
- Lecturer in Law, La Trobe University
Who is a child’s legal parent? The question is at the heart of a case due before the High Court this year. It may have implications for children born via IVF or surrogacy, and the people who raise them.
Having a gender identity that does not match one’s sex on a birth certificate can cause confusion and embarrassment and potentially lead to discrimination.
Tony Abbott has claimed that same-sex de facto couples already have the same rights as married couples. This is not true.
There’s nothing to start a debate like Germaine Greer letting fly. This time it was about Elton John’s family.
A bill currently before the NSW Parliament attempts to criminalise harm to late-term foetuses that die due to injuries inflicted on their mother. But is foetal legal personhood the best way to recognise…
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