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SLOVENIA The Constitutional Court has issued a ruling that laws barring same-sex couples and single women from accessing assisted reproduction are unconstitutional discrimination.
The court has left the laws in place while giving parliament one year to bring the laws governing assisted reproduction into compliance with the constitution.
The Slovenian LGBTQ advocacy group LEGEBITRA celebrated the ruling in a post on its web site. “The decision of the Constitutional Court is a victory for all those who wanted to start a family in Slovenia and were unfairly deprived of this opportunity in the past.
Rainbow (and single-parent) families are part of our society, and their children are part of the community in the country in which they live and grow up.
