Sep 21, 2007Quickie Link: Costa Rica Contemplating Gay Adoption Ban
By vanrozenheim
(Costa Rica) - Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly is poised to outlaw adoption either by same-sex couples or by mixed-gender couples in which one partner may be Gay or Bisexual. The bill, which was approved unanimously by the Childhood and Adolescence Commission of the Costa Rican Legislative Assembly, will now proceed to the Assembly’s main floor for debate, according to a story posted yesterday by ticotimes.net. The measure seeks to add language to the existing Family Code’s article 107. A new paragraph to the article would stipulate that "adoptions, made by title to an individual or pair, in which one or both people have shown a sexual orientation toward people of the same sex" would be prohibited.
