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Sperm freezing

  • 12-11-2010 9:38pm
    #1
    Freiheit
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    The Rotunda hospital in Dublin will store sperm...E300 for year one and gradually becoming more expensive.


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  • #2
    Louisevb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭Louisevb


    Freiheit wrote: »
    The Rotunda hospital in Dublin will store sperm...E300 for year one and gradually becoming more expensive.

    Rotunda won't store on religious grounds for transgender people.. unless they have changed their attitude in the last six months. They do store for people in non trans cases. I can get you a copy of the letter stating just that. The only place is in London.
    Another reason why the religious exemption under the Equal Status act needs to be repealed and also the Employment Equality Act section 37


  • #3
    Freiheit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭Freiheit


    Please do so if you could Louise. I thought that church and state were separate?. If that is the case could it be challenged?. Possibly apply for free legal aid and go for it?. Surely that wouldn't stand up in the courts?.


  • #4
    Louisevb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭Louisevb


    Sorry but there is no point in getting the letter. The Rotunda is entirely within the law. It is discriminating on gender grounds but is exempted from prosecution on the basis that a religious institution i.e. hospital or school with a religious ethos can legally discriminate.

    This exemption was given by the FF government to the religious institutions in both the above acts. It's Labour Party policy when in government to repeal these exemptions.


  • #5
    L.Jenkins
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    Can that not be appealed at the EU court for human rights? Despite religious institutes legally allowed to discriminate, I'm sure the EU would have something to say about the unconstitionality of it.


  • #6
    Freiheit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭Freiheit


    I'd say a whole raft of Irish law would collapse if taken to the European Courts. It often struck me that the Abortion ban is one waiting to fall, the 'Party Whip system' according to an expert is another.


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  • #7
    Louisevb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭Louisevb


    Louisevb wrote: »
    Rotunda won't store on religious grounds for transgender people.. unless they have changed their attitude in the last six months. They do store for people in non trans cases. I can get you a copy of the letter stating just that. The only place is in London.
    Another reason why the religious exemption under the Equal Status act needs to be repealed and also the Employment Equality Act section 37

    I've just come across someone this week who managed to get the Rotunda to store sperm. Rotunda have now come into the real world and have agreed to save sperm for a trans woman but it is very expensive apparently compared to London.


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