Results 1-10 of 10 for gay speaker:Baroness Barker

Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Special Exemption) Regulations 2009: Motion to Approve (7 Jul 2009)

Baroness Barker: ...excellent legislation this Act is. Parliament and, in particular, this House should be proud because this order, in its detail, demonstrates just how difficult it has been hitherto for lesbian and gay families to give children the security that other children enjoy as of right. Anyone who reads this order can be in no doubt that the HFEA Act in its effect is serving the best interests of...

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL] (29 Oct 2008)

Baroness Barker: ...Some Members of this House do not accept the conclusions that the majority reached and would rather that civil partnerships did not exist. I think that some Members of this House would rather that gay people did not exist, but they do. They do. The whole point of this legislation was to ensure that children born into those families receive the same legal recognition and protection as other...

HIV/AIDS (3 Apr 2008)

Baroness Barker: ...which I wish to focus: the fact that approximately one-third of all cases of HIV are undiagnosed, which is a very high comparative level; and the accompanying statistic that nearly 40 per cent of gay men in the UK have never had an HIV test. There are public health and clinical concerns about such a high level of undiagnosed people, because they are most at risk of transmitting HIV to...

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL] (12 Dec 2007)

Baroness Barker: ...we have had in your Lordships' House about matters such as civil partnerships and the adoption Bill, I have always found it strange that the people who seem to attract the greatest condemnation are gay people who choose to submit themselves to close examination of their personal lives. They are seeking to do only one thing—to have their commitment to one another, and their attempts...

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL] (10 Dec 2007)

Baroness Barker: ...to earlier, is a strong advocate of telling children as soon as possible that they have been donor conceived. The noble Baroness, Lady Warnock, is right that attitudes are changing greatly toward gay parents and different types of families. Yet the decision about how and when to tell a child remains an intensely personal one, which each family has to manage individually. I do not wish our...

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL] (10 Dec 2007)

Baroness Barker: ...is, but it is entirely possible that that includes everyone from teenagers through to people who are very old and on to a second relationship. It does not present any kind of data valid to those gay couples who would consider themselves to be the right ones to bring up children and offer stability. I cite those as two examples; there may be more. The noble Baroness talked about the need...

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL] (21 Nov 2007)

Baroness Barker: ...and very deeply-held religious and moral views, we, like the Conservatives, believe that this should be open to a free vote. It is also our party's policy that individual women and lesbian and gay couples should not face discrimination when they seek fertility treatment. I will explain why later. My school bus used to go past an old Victorian building every day. Nobody paid it very much...

Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia (10 Mar 2004)

Baroness Barker: ...to begin to learn about the cultural differences, so that care for such people is of a sufficiently high standard. I take the opportunity to congratulate the Alzheimer's Society's lesbian and gay carers' project on securing funding from Comic Relief to enable it to run a helpline and develop support systems for carers and training for professionals. Your Lordships should think about what...

Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 (26 Feb 2004)

Baroness Barker: ...may be interested to hear about a case that I came across a couple of months ago. It could have a bearing on the forthcoming civil partnership legislation, because it happens to be the partner of a gay man who has been diagnosed. My second question relates to posthumous claims. I understand that, under the legislation, it will be possible for there to be a posthumous claim. Sometimes,...

Care Standards Bill (13 Dec 1999)

Baroness Barker: ...projections about the older population. That population will in future be increasingly diverse. There will be greater numbers of older people from ethnic minority communities, who are lesbian or gay, or who come with a completely different expectation of good care. I urge the Government not only to make care standards explicit but to ensure that they are regularly updated. The Bill makes...