Limiting Access to Assisted Reproduction JM V QFG

Stuhmcke, A

Limiting Access to Assisted Reproduction JM V QFG

Stuhmcke, A

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Publisher:: LexisNexis Butterworths
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Stuhmcke Anita 2002, 'Limiting Access to Assisted Reproduction JM V QFG', LexisNexis Butterworths, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 245-252.
Issue Date:: 2002

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Stuhmcke, A	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-08-20T13:01:35Z
dc.date.available	2009-08-20T13:01:35Z
dc.date.issued	2002	en_US
dc.identifier	2002000043	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Stuhmcke Anita 2002, 'Limiting Access to Assisted Reproduction JM V QFG', LexisNexis Butterworths, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 245-252.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0817-623X	en_US
dc.identifier.other	C1	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/968
dc.description.abstract	The only Australian case which has specifically dealt with the question of a self-identifying lesbian accessing artificial reproductive technology (ART) I is a decision of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Queensland, JM v QFG.2 This decision limits access to ART through the legal sanctioning of a select medical definition of infertility. In essence, the decision of the Queensland Supreme Court promotes judicial approval of a medical definition of infertility and rejects social infertility as a basis for access to ART. This means that lesbian women such as 1M, and potentially lesbian and single heterosexual women in other Australian jurisdictions, will be considered to be fertile (or socially infertile) and thereby unable to access ART. This note examines the decision of JM v QFG and discusses the effect of placing a medico-legal barrier of 'infertility' upon lesbian access to ART in Australia.	en_US
dc.publisher	LexisNexis Butterworths	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Australian Journal of Family Law	en_US
dc.title	Limiting Access to Assisted Reproduction JM V QFG	en_US
dc.type	Journal article
utslib.citation.volume	16	en_US
utslib.location	Sydney	en_US
utslib.citation.startpage	245	en_US
utslib.citation.endpage	252	en_US
utslib.identifier.org	Law	en_US
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access

Abstract:

The only Australian case which has specifically dealt with the question of a self-identifying lesbian accessing artificial reproductive technology (ART) I is a decision of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Queensland, JM v QFG.2 This decision limits access to ART through the legal sanctioning of a select medical definition of infertility. In essence, the decision of the Queensland Supreme Court promotes judicial approval of a medical definition of infertility and rejects social infertility as a basis for access to ART. This means that lesbian women such as 1M, and potentially lesbian and single heterosexual women in other Australian jurisdictions, will be considered to be fertile (or socially infertile) and thereby unable to access ART. This note examines the decision of JM v QFG and discusses the effect of placing a medico-legal barrier of 'infertility' upon lesbian access to ART in Australia.

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