\nA while ago I signed this petition requesting that altruistic surrogacy be decriminalised in Queensland and it has since been presented to parliament and new laws drafted which make this no longer an illegal choice for people who need to choose to create their families in this way. It also strongly and clearly defines the needs and rights and status of any children born through these arrangements which is of course paramount.
If you are in Queensland you should look at the ePetitions website regularly, as the petitions really do go to parliament and really do get responded to. Not all of them achieve what was wanted but many do this is not the first that I have signed that has had a successful response.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
<p class="stumble"><a href="http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/to\/1GPukx\/www.parliament.qld.gov.au\/view\/EPetitions_qld\/ClosedEPetition.aspx?PetNum=1347&lIndex=-1\/t:4b9dc4f1de439;src:favorites"> Queensland Parliament E-Petitions – Closed E-Petition<\/a> <blockquote><\/blockquote> <\/p> Queensland Parliament E-Petitions – Closed E-Petition A while ago I signed this petition requesting that altruistic surrogacy be decriminalised in Queensland and it has since been presented to parliament and new laws drafted which make this no longer an illegal choice for people who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5SdGC-4K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gazpachosoup.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gazpachosoup.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gazpachosoup.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gazpachosoup.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gazpachosoup.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gazpachosoup.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gazpachosoup.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gazpachosoup.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gazpachosoup.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gazpachosoup.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}