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>> - Adoption by same-sex couples.
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>> This has already been tried unsuccessfully by a lesbian couple in Ontario in 1995. If
>> the Human Rights Act is amended, these cases will succeed.
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>Since it has never been tried before in Canada, I can understand a certain amount of
>fear of the unknown with regard to same-sex adoption (particularly among homophobics).
>However, these same-sex couples would be subject to screening by the social services
>authorities, while any heterosexual couple could simply give birth to a child without
>any prior checks into their child-raising abilities.  Therefore, I think that
>the potential that the child will experience a happy childhood with loving, caring
>parents would be higher than average with same-sex (or any) adoption.
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I have some lesbian friends who had themselves artificially inseminated, and will
soon have children, so I think adoption is really a non-issue already, unless the prospective
adoptors are sterile or unwilling to endure a surrogate pregnancy arrangement.

I say non-issue, meaning from society's perspective.  If we cannot prevent same-sex couples from
having their own children, then why prevent them from adopting?