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Global recession hits India's baby business - The Independent 26th October 2009
"The global economic downturn has hit businesses around the world, from big banks to local shops, leaving millions in fear of losing their livelihoods and desperate to cut down on spending.
But among the recession's more unlikely victims have been infertile Western couples wanting children and prepared to travel abroad to use Indian surrogate mothers as a cheaper alternative to fertility clinics back home."
Christian doctor is axed from panel over failing to back gay adoption - Daily Mail 20th July 2009
A doctor has been removed from an adoption panel because she refuses to endorse applications by homosexual couples.
Dr Sheila Matthews, who is a Christian, was told that her beliefs on gay adoption were incompatible with equality legislation and council policies.
Doctor faces sack for refusing to back gay adoptions - Daily Telegraph 18th July 2009
A Christian doctor has been told she will be sacked from a council's adoption panel after refusing to recommend cases involving gay couples.
Catholic ban on adoption by same-sex couples is ruled illegal - Daily Mail 3rd June 2009
Catholic adoption societies which refuse to offer children to gay couples face closure following a tribunal yesterday.
Judges ruled in a test case that the charities, which find homes for hundreds of children each year, will be breaking the law if they refuse to accept same-sex couples as adoptive parents.
Police take baby into care within seconds of birth - The Observer 22nd March 2009
A baby was taken into police custody within seconds of being born after a high court judge made an unprecedented ruling that its parents should not be told about social workers' plans to take the child away for adoption.
Baby D was born this month to a mother who is in prison for threatening her small daughter with a knife. Social workers from Bury Metropolitan Borough Council were afraid that if the baby's mother knew the council planned to put it up for adoption she might kill the child at birth. She had told a social worker that her children would be better off dead than in the council's care.
You're too fat to adopt: 24st husband told he has too many health risks - Daily Mail 12th January 2009
Having found out they could not have a child of their own, Damien and Charlotte Hall decided to offer a loving home to one waiting in care.
But their dream of adopting was shattered when they were told that Mr Hall, 37, was too fat.
It has emerged that council officials have ruled the couple are not suitable as he weighs 24-and-a-half stone and has a body mass index (BMI) of more than 42, classing him as very obese.
Husband 'too fat' for couple to adopt - The Sunday Telegraph 11th January 2009
A married couple who have been together for 14 years were refused permission to adopt because one of them is overweight.
Victory for couple facing social workers' adoption ban for smacking their son - Daily Mail 4th November 2008
A couple prevented from adopting a baby girl because they once slapped another child for swearing won a court's backing today when a judge branded the ban 'bizarre'.
The 'caring and sensitive' couple had been told by a council they could not take in the half-sister of a little boy they adopted five years ago.
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