From the October 8, 2007, Maclean's, Newsmakers section, page 77, an article about to women in Nova Scotia who could get legally married there but who could not have both names on the birth certificate of their child.
JAMIE AND EMILY O'NEILL
TWO PROUD MOTHERS
Until last week, two women could legally marry in Nova Scotia, but if they wanted to have children together, only one could be listed on official records as the mother. That all changed when the province hastily amended their rules following a human-rights complaint lodged by Emily and Jamie O'Neill. The two women married two years ago and they decided to have a baby through artificial insemination. Emily is the biological mother of a bouncing baby girl, Jordyn, who was born on Aug. 7. But when they registered the birth, Jamie was told by officials that the only way she could be registered as a parent was if she were to adopt Jordyn. A same-sex couple, could in effect, share a marriage certificate, but not a birth certificate. Last week the O'Neills filed a human-rights complaint and within days the government revised the regulations.
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