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"If the deciding issue is the welfare of potential children, then the decision to exclude lesbian couples is clearly discriminatory." Assess this claim.
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Introduction: "If the deciding issue is the welfare of potential children, then the decision to exclude lesbian couples is clearly discriminatory."1 The access of lesbian and single women to Assisted Reproductive technology (ART) such as In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is a current issue, which has generated much legal and ethical debate. The conservative anti homo-familial unit rhetoric has expressed that allowing homosexual couples access to such technologies, is the same as allowing the degeneration of the family. Although the concept of family is by no means clearly defined legally, it can be seen that historically, law has agreed that the concept of the homo-familial unit are inconsistent with the commonly societally espoused and legally enforced ideals of a hetero-nuclear family. Homosexual families have been seen to be immoral, counter to the notion of family, and in many cases, contributing to its breakdown. Homosexual individuals are seen as unable to meet the rights...
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