Just yesterday, June 17^th, 2008, it officially became legal for gay couples to marry in the state of California.  While, this is still a very controversial law, it is a big step in helping more people create families through assisted reproduction, especially since California is not requiring any couples to be legal residents of California in order to get married.  Therefore, I wonder if this is going to change how the legal world sees same-sex parents as well. Will married gay couples still have to do step-parent adoptions in order to ensure that both parents, biological and non-biological, are provided the same rights when it comes to the child? Or, will this new law ensure that same-sex married parents are treated the same as heterosexual parents when having a baby via a gestational carrier without the requirement of a step-parent adoption?  Only time and the legal system will tell.

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