Britain’s lesbian families ‘scandal’
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A story in a british newspaper about children being raised by lesbian mothers caused a national scandal and a heated public debate. Jill hanscombe is a retired writer academic who always wanted to be a mother. She met jackie forster, a prominent activist who ran a lesbian organization called sappho. Women were discussing cause they couldn't adopt or foster because of being lesbians,. how they could have a baby without having a on off, you know, getting a man leaning them up against a wall when they were fertile and all that type thing. And a these two australians said, but why don't you try an idea? We said, what they said, artificial inse
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