(1) Will Halm's oldest daughter is one of the first generation of IVF babies born via surrogacy to gay dads.
(2) As a lawyer, Will Halm is proud to note that, of all the parental orders he has written, asserting parental rights for gay couples, no court has overturned a single one.
(3) If you had to contrive a family to illustrate historical changes in gay parenting law, it would be Halm, an attorney specialising in fertility law, his partner, Marcellin Simard, and their children.
(4) Static photographic evidence of the occurrence of cyclovergence is presented that supports and extends the result of Crone and Everhard-Halm (1975).
(5) When Halm and Simard had their first child, they were told by psychologists that they would be inadequate parents.
(6) 'To hear, "You are the legal parents" in a court of law, that was significant': Will Halm and Marcellin Simard with Harley, Luc and Malina.
(7) In California, Will Halm and his partner were the first gay dads in a surrogacy case in the US to win the right to have their names on their child's birth certificate, after a legal battle in 1998.
(8) "That judgment in 1998, with our second child, was really a critical point," Halm says.
(9) Photograph: courtesy of Will Halm In the US, commercial surrogacy is legal and therefore slightly less complex, depending on which state you're in.
(10) Halm's mother started to make comments on which of the two dads the baby looked like.
Halo
Definition:
(n.) A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions.
(n.) A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus.
(n.) An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object.
(n.) A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.
(v. t. & i.) To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sec-alpha-halo-nitro compounds are active antibacterial and antifungal agents, and the sec-bromo derivatives are the most active and stable.
(2) For conservative treatment of injuries of the cervical spine, two different methods are available: The HALO fixator and the collar.
(3) Thickening of the gallbladder wall, a subserosal "halo" of edema, pericholecystic abscess, and marked gallbladder distention were consistent findings in AAC.
(4) An Mr 15,000 protein was produced at higher levels by halo variants than by nonhalo-producing cells.
(5) Management intervention was identified as the cause of deterioration in four of 134 patients undergoing operative intervention, in three of 60 with skeletal traction application, in two of 68 with halo vest application, in two of 56 undergoing Stryker frame rotation, and in one of 57 undergoing rotobed rotation.
(6) PRL or its solvent were administered at different time points (0, 4, 8, and 12 hours after light onset = HALO) during 5 consecutive days.
(7) A peripheral halo with delayed enhancement was noticed in 12 patients (42.8%) Histologic correlation in hepatocellular carcinomas showed that the degree of contrast enhancement corresponded to tumor vascularity and that the peripheral halo corresponded to fibrous capsular structure.
(8) 1) small elevation, 2) spotty barium fleck, 3) ill defined barium fleck and 4) barium fleck with halo were suggested the possibility of inflammatory bowel diseases.
(9) These cases suggest that a halo sign does not guarantee a benign process.
(10) The correction by halo-up-Extension runs on an average of 35% of the total correction.
(11) When cultures were overlaid with an acridine orangedeoxyribonucleate-agar (ADA) mixture, incubated for 1 to 3 hr, and observed under ultraviolet light, clear halos developed around colonies that produced deoxyribonuclease.
(12) In the light of these results and of recently published reports a rational diagnostic approach to hypoechoic lesions without halo in echogenic livers varies, depending on such factors as known primary malignancy or site of the lesion.
(13) Subsequent treatments are given using skin tattoos and laser alignment for target placement within the isocenter of the linear accelerator, and a modified portable halo-ring device is used for skull immobilization.
(14) A significant number of Alzheimer patients exhibited a more extensive smooth "halo" of periventricular hyperintensity when compared with controls (p = .024).
(15) (b) Positioning of patients for operation, including those with a halo vest, is efficiently carried out with safety and ease.
(16) Based on a personal series of 47 cases of aberrant papillae and a review of the literature, the authors stress the relative frequency of this anomaly and the almost constant possibility of making the diagnosis by means of intravenous pyelography on the basis of the following signs: regular, round or oval filling defect, surrounded by a fine opaque halo which separates it from the surrounding urine; or a notch with a regular arc-shaped border prolonged towards the exterior at its two extremities by a small spur.
(17) 2) A halo peak appeared in group II and showed the trend of disappearance in group III, however, no peak shift was observed in all groups.
(18) The halo brace has presented the neuroscience nurse with a new challenge in the care of victims of cervical spine trauma.
(19) Skull traction and a halo-vest were intermediate in patients with loss of motion, and the degree of loss of range was essentially equal.
(20) At the end of the third reperfusion day, an atypical form of bouton degeneration was found, consisting of massive occurrence of enlarged (greater than 4 microns) boutons encircled by a clear halo.