Jose asked:

Do we really have a "right to have children"? Or is it the other way round, i. e., Do children have a
right to have parents? If so, do they have a right to both a mother and a father? These questions have
been nagging me ever since the "same-sex couples adopting kids or resorting to insemination"
controversy started. Sorry to ask so many questions, but I think they are closely related.

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What is a right? Perhaps it is an entitlement conferred by society and if this is so there is no right to
have children in England, although I believe IVF is going to become available on the National Health,
but you can only have one go and as far I know one go doesn't normally work so that can't be
conferring a right. If you were entitled to have a child you should be able to go with IVF as long as you
wish. If heterosexual couples don't have a right to have a child then same sex couples wouldn't either.

Just because there is no "right" in the sense of entitlement, this doesn't mean it is wrong.

We don't have a right to have parents. We just do. Whatever our parents are like, we just have to put
up with it.

Rachel Browne

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