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The (an?) Australian Federal Court (although apparently this only has jurisdiction in the province of Victoria, appropriately enough) has ruled that in vitro fertilization (IVF) can be restricted from “lifestyle” lesbians (i.e., where there is presumed to be some choice about it), but not from “psychologically infertile” lesbians (who, for psychological reasons, cannot “do it” with a male). Goofiness ensues<\/a> in the provincial government about what this means, what laws should therefore be passed, how to test for it, and whether it’s a good thing or not.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, charges have been dropped<\/a> against a woman who violated laws against this already on the book.<\/p>\n

(via <\/a>JillMatrix)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The (an?) Australian Federal Court (although apparently this only has jurisdiction in the province of Victoria, appropriately enough) has ruled that in vitro fertilization (IVF) can be restricted from “lifestyle”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5754,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/22\/whiplash.html","url_meta":{"origin":752,"position":0},"title":"Whiplash","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 22-Jul-04 1:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Wasn't just a week or two ago that GOP lawmakers in Congress were trying to impose a one-size-fits-all Constitutional amendment against gay marriage, to quash even states from allowing such...","rel":"","context":"In "LGBTQ &c"","block_context":{"text":"LGBTQ &c","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/gay-stuff"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6501,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/25\/hate_to_say_i_t.html","url_meta":{"origin":752,"position":1},"title":"Hate to say I told you so, but …","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Aug-04 7:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"More of the dangers of a mixed bag of civil union laws across the US have cropped up, this time in Virginia. 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