Gay adoption may soon be legal in Northern Ireland

by Kilian Melloy
EDGE Boston

A ban on adoption by unmarried couples has been reversed by the United Kingdom’s House of Lords, possibly opening the way to adoptions by gay couples.

As reported in a June 18 article by the Belfast Telegraph, a Northern Irish unmarried heterosexual couple had contested the ban, taking their challenge to the highest court in the United Kingdom, where, in a 4-1 decision, the ban on unmarried couples adopting children was struck down.

But some now worry that two men or two women will seek similar family consideration from the law.

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