(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.
Halp
Definition:
(imp.) Helped.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hypoalphalipoproteinemia (HALP) is the most frequent lipid alteration found in patients with myocardial infarction at an early age.
(2) Thus some, but probably not all, of the magnitude of allogeneic halp can be attributed to the high frequency of helper T cells that respond to a given alloantigen.
(3) The discussion of past experience halps point to criteria that might be followed in formulating future experimental projects.
(4) The aim of this study was to know the frequency of main factors which reduce the levels of cHDL in a group of subjects with and without HALP.
(5) The relative incorporation of 14C from leucine into lipids vs. nonlipids was 20%, and the incorporation of label into total lipids from leucine was one-halp that from pyruvate.
(6) Urine contained substance(s) which were inhibitory to the measurement of hydrogen peroxide by the peroxidase-catalyzed oxidative condensation of MBTH and HALPS, but they were largely removed by charcoal treatment at pH 5.6 without significant loss of oxalate.
(7) Ultrasonic examination of the cases with low AFP levels halped in revision gestational ages for some of the women.
(8) Among the chromogenic hydrogen donors for peroxidase tested, a combination of 3-methyl-2-benzothiazolinone hydrazone (MBTH) and sodium N-sulfopropylaniline (HALPS) was found to be best for the oxalate determination under the conditions used.
(9) The consumption of cigarettes, the index of body mass (IBM) and the prevalence of diabetes mellitus were higher in the group of subjects with HALP.
(10) Altogether, in 64% of the subjects with HALP, factors which may decrease cHDL were associated.