On April 6th of this year, new regulations will go into effect that will allow women, who undergo the In vitro fertilization (IVF) to “nominate” anyone to be their baby’s father on the birth certificate.  Now this new regulation means that the mother could name another woman to be listed on the birth certificate.

The new regulation will also mean that the “father” doesn’t have to have any type of relation with the mother. Critics of the regulation think that women may name their best friends or the name of father could be named “second parent.” They say that the ‘father’ that is listed on the birth certificate would have to consent to being placed on the document.

This new regulation was part of the Embryology Bill passed by the British Parliament last year and will effect roughly the 2,000 women who use IVF yearly. The new rules state: ‘The women receiving treatment with donor sperm (or embryos created with donor sperm) can consent to any man or woman being the father or second parent. The only exemption is close blood relatives.

Baroness Deech, a former chairman of the HFEA, said the practice would lead to the ‘ falsification of the birth certificate’. She said: “This is putting the rights of the parents’ way above those of the child. It is absurd that anyone can be named as the father or the second parent.”

Only time will tell how many children that will have Barrack Obama, Brad Pitt, and George Clooney listed as the father, since its starting in the United Kingdom, maybe there will be a few with John Cleese & David Beckham.

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