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  Court extends rights to gay mom (Indiana)
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Last EditedWabash  Nov 27, 2004 06:03pm
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News DateSaturday, November 27, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionWhen female partners in Indiana agree to conceive a child through artificial insemination, both partners are the legal parents, according to a groundbreaking decision this week by the Indiana Court of Appeals.

The court also chided state lawmakers for being slow to deal with advances in reproductive technology, urging the legislature to address the "current social reality" of unconventional families.

"No (legitimate) reason exists to provide the children born to lesbian parents through the use of reproductive technology with less security and protection than that given to children born to heterosexual parents through artificial insemination," Judge Ezra H. Friedlander wrote in the ruling issued Wednesday.
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