The latest push by the fertility industry to monetise a trade in human babies, women’s eggs and create a rental market for women’s wombs in Australia needs to be resisted by federal parliamentarians, according to the Australian Christian Lobby.

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If you think changing the definition of marriage to remove gender is innocuous, with little impact on children or the community, think again.

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Last week, a raft of ideologically-motivated rainbow legislation passed the South Australian Upper House in a pre-Christmas blitz on human dignity.

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A raft of bizare and unethical rainbow ideologically-motivated legislation will go before the South Australian Upper House this week in a pre-Christmas blitz on human dignity.

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Mr Ian Goodenough MP, Federal Member for Moore, discusses being struck by meeting Millie Fontana, and her story as a daughter of lesbian mothers.

Millie wishes that more emphasis would be placed on the children of same-sex parents and the grieving they go through when they cannot know their missing biological parent.

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Recommendations to continue banning commercial surrogacy in Australia will protect Australian women from being exploited for their eggs and wombs but more needs to be done to stamp out surrogacy in developing nations, according to the Australian Christian Lobby.

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Lyle speaks with Christian Democratic Party Member of the Legislative Council Paul Green.

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The latest example of a surrogate mother being ordered to abort a baby in the USA should cause Australians to question whether or not surrogacy is in the best interests of children and women, according to the Australian Christian Lobby.

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Yesterday I spent time with two federal MPs from both sides of politics discussing surrogacy.

Since 2004, most state and territory governments have moved to legalise altruistic surrogacy – that is surrogacy where a mother is not paid to carry and give birth to a child (or children) for someone else.

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In this week's edition of Politics In Focus, ACL's Managing Director Lyle Shelton talks about the World Congress of Families event in Melbourne, and weighs in on the current surrogacy debate in Australia. Watch the video below.







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