The Surrogacy Bill 2009, passed by the Queensland Parliament, by 45 votes to 36 on February 11, should have been about altruistic surrogacy as a “last resort” for an infertile couple. But no, under that respectable cloak this new act has smuggled in a radical proposal to deprive children of their birthright – their fundamental right to enter the world, as most of us did, with both a mother and a father.By what authority does any government permit adults to deny a child her most profound emotiona…
