Tasmania’s Lower House has passed laws making it easier for same sex couples to adopt. The amendment to the Adoption Act allows gay men and women to adopt a child who is not a relative. The change passed with the …..

Parents of women with severe disabilities are being forced to take their daughters overseas for hysterectomies after their requests for the procedure were denied in Australia, a leading endocrinologist has told an inquiry into involuntary sterilisation…

A JUDGE has likened parties in a custody feud between a millionaire businessman and the former flame whom he helped to conceive a child through IVF to warring Shakespearean families…

A WOMAN cannot fulfil her late partner’s final wish and have their child by IVF because the Family Court lacks jurisdiction over his frozen sperm…

Two gay dads have become the first in Australia to have started a family via overseas surrogacy and successfully gained full parental rights…

CATHOLIC hospitals fear patients will use new anti-discrimination laws to demand abortions, vasectomies and IVF treatments now banned for religious reasons…

OUTDATED laws are forcing doctors to twist the truth to get abortions for their patients, a study has found…

PROSPECTIVE parents could receive discounted fertility treatment if they promise to donate some of their embryos to other people, under a proposal to deal with the problem of thousands of unwanted embryos sitting in clinic freezers…

Changes to commercial surrogacy arrangements in India, introduced just before Christmas, have cut off one of the more popular avenues for Australians wanting to become surrogate parents…

A widow has been allowed to extract her dead husband’s sperm a day after he took his own life, following an urgent West Australian court hearing…