Slovenia top court backs artificial insemination

(ANSA-AFP) - LJUBLJANA, NOV 26 - Slovenia's Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that women who are single, lesbian or both must be granted the right to artificial insemination on the grounds the current prohibition is discriminatory. In 2001 the Alpine EU country's parliament extended the right to artificial insemination to single women and women who do not have sex with men. But a referendum called by the conservative opposition rejected the changes. Slovenia's Constitutional Court gave parliament a one-year deadline to pass the legislation needed to amend the current law. (ANSA-AFP).