On Friday, the National Council decided on several changes to parental rights. For example, legal parenthood may only be linked to the fact that the mother and partner are married or have a registered partnership at the time of birth. There is also a central register of sperm or egg donations.
This is intended to improve the child’s right to know his genetic origins. Young people aged 14 and over must be able to obtain information about their biological parents. Nature alone does not take care of everything. It can also prevent parenthood and in this case medicines can help with parenthood, said MP Harald Troch (SPÖ). His party is positive about sperm or egg donation – regardless of whether it concerns hetero or gay couples. At the same time, the politician pointed out that answers to questions about data protection are still needed. An initial draft of the register is expected to be presented in the spring.
Children conceived without in vitro fertilization and whose parents are in a same-sex marriage or registered partnership will automatically have two parents in the future. This places them on the same level as children born in a heterosexual marriage.
“Provide social structure”
“In the future, every child in Austria born within a marriage or registered partnership will be able to rely on automatically having two legal parents – regardless of the method by which the child was conceived and whether the parents are the same or different. sex. With this important law, we are laying the foundation that a child’s safety is guaranteed by the social structure,” said Ewa Ernst-Dziedzic, the Greens’ human rights spokeswoman, in a press release.
Surrogacy remains prohibited
The changes to parental rights were decided by members of the ÖVP, the Greens, SPÖ and NEOS. The FPÖ only voted in favor of the register. The National Council agreed to maintain the ban on surrogacy. “Surrogacy is prohibited in most EU countries and usually means child trafficking and exploitation of women,” the organization Aktion Leben Österreich said in a press release.
Shetty Yannick (NEOS) criticized the FPÖ for its limited worldview of ‘father, mother, child’. But more than 90 percent of citizens would live in such a system, says Dagmar Belakowitsch (FPÖ). According to Mario Lindner (SPÖ), more than 900,000 people in Austria are part of the LGBTIQ community (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and interpersonal people, queer people).
Source: Krone
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