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IN A breakthrough for children’s rights, the Constitutional Court gave the final greenlight to unmarried life partners to acquire full parenting responsibilities and rights if they go the parenting route via artificial fertilisation.
The court declared section 40 of Children’s Act unconstitutional to the extent that it excludes permanent life partners as automatic recipients of parental rights and responsibilities.
As the law stood before, the husband of the mother who was artificially inseminated was automatically regarded
