MP’s in the U.K. today defeated a proposed addition to the Government’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill that would have required fertility clinics to consider a child’s “need for a father” before providing services to lesbians and single women.
Clinics are required to consider the “welfare of the [potential] child”, but the new bill says they only have to do so by weighing the need for “supportive parenting.” Conservatives wanted to say “supportive parenting and a father or a male role model.”
Of course, none of them proposed taking children away from mothers who became single via divorce or death of a spouse, or required that fathers or male role models pass some test to prove they were indeed worthy, beyond merely having the right chromosomes. You know the arguments. . . . At least wiser heads prevailed this time.
