The landmark laws, passed in State Parliament late on Thursday, legalise surrogacy and give lesbians and single women access to fertility treatment, including IVF.
The Australian Christian Lobby has denounced the legislation as “social engineering” and says it will enable gay men to “order” a surrogate baby on demand.
“It steps outside the natural family, two men can’t (physically) have a baby,” lobby spokesman Rob Ward said.
“The wishes of homosexuals to have children should not be placed above the inalienable rights of children to start out in life with a mother and a father.”
The new laws eradicate the need for surrogate couples to travel interstate for IVF.
Previously, women had to be infertile to qualify for fertility treatment, ruling out surrogate mothers and most single and lesbian women.
The legislation also gives gay partners and parents of surrogate children legal parenting rights and allows women to conceive using the sperm of their dead partners.
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