A child has a natural right to be conceived, born and reared by both mother and father. It would be a natural injustice for a child to be legally deprived of the possibility of being reared by his or her natural father. We rightly apologise today to Aboriginal people for having created the stolen generations. It was far from the mind of the federal parliament in enacting the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 to require infertility clinics to treat single women and lesbians so that children could be conceived, born and raised fatherless. The Howard Government should demonstrate its political will to uphold its commitment to family values and amend the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 to uphold the fundamental principles of the natural law and to prevent children being deprived of their right to be reared by their natural fathers.
Every child has a right to both natural parents.
If you chose to live a particular lifestyle, then that does not give you the right to delete the father from that child's life. IVAN COPE, Townsville, Qld. Sorry about the archbishop, girls. To each his or her own. Private consensual sexual or procreational activity straight, gay, lesbian, technology assisted, self-administered or none is absolutely not the preserve of prelate or priestly pontification.