birth certificate

This is the birth certificate that leaves the father off the official record for the first time in nearly 200 years. It shows only a mother and a ‘parent’ – also a woman – for newly-born Lily-May Betty Woods. The baby was born to 38-yearold Natalie Woods. The parent named on the form is Miss Woods’s partner, 47-year-old Betty Knowles.

A lesbian couple have become the first same-sex parents in Britain to jointly sign the birth certificate of their child. Natalie Woods and Betty Knowles countersigned the document after the birth of Lily-May Betty Woods. Lily-May was born after Woods from East Sussex became pregnant via a sperm donor.

From Telegraph.co.uk:

NOLA.com reports that Louisiana's Department of Vital Statistics can't be forced to provide a birth certificate listing two men as the parents of a Louisiana-born boy adopted by a gay couple in New York, a lawyer from the state attorney general's office said Wednesday before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

An April 6th post at Lesbilicious explores the U.K.'s new Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008. Milly Shaw spoke to three lesbian families to find out how it might affect them.

Fertility clinics must now take into account ‘the welfare of the child’ when providing treatment, rather than ‘the need for a father’. The new legislation is considered a major victory for gay rights.

The AP reports that Louisiana has 15 days to add the names of both fathers to the birth certificate of a boy born in Shreveport and adopted by a gay couple from out-of-state, a federal judge has ruled.

The state is asking the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the ruling by U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey, and to halt the order in the meantime, state Attorney General Buddy Caldwell said Thursday.

The Louisiana attorney general has asked a federal judge to reconsider his ruling that both fathers' names be added to the birth certificate of a boy born in Shreveport and adopted by a gay couple from out of state.

The AP reports that court papers filed Wednesday in New Orleans ask U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey to hold a full trial or ask the Louisiana Supreme Court to interpret the state law at the heart of the matter.

I have donated embryos that a gestational surrogate will be carrying. Can my name, I am not married, be put on the birth certificate if I am the legal guardian, but not a biological parent? We plan to do this in Illinois.