Because the world needed a mini her with Bozo The Clown hair. For a minute I thought Shauna had gone full on lesbian and dyed her hair red. Having a head shot of you and your wife grabbing and kissing each other on every article screams, "Lookitme, I found someone to fuck me!"
Anyway, had this procedure worked, she would have been carrying a child with half of its DNA from outside the relationship. Again, why not adopt?
There is a word for what these people are, and it's childless. They believe something is missing from their life.
She also wrote an article about being upset that her wife is called her partner by CSRs. Many CSRs are taught to use the term partner, even with hetero couples to avoid offending people. Some hetero women don't like to be called "wife" because it's a loaded term.
I like this comment on the article about how people refer to her:
"Ordinarily I'm of the view Australians don't do diversity very well, no matter how much they claim to support it. On this one though I think the author is simply wrong. Nobody is correcting her. Nobody is instructing her that she is using the incorrect pronoun to refer to her wife.
The use of "partner" has crept in to the language because of the range of non-traditional living arrangements not adequately covered by husband/wife and fiance.
Should customer service staff listen closely to discern the nature of your professed preference for terms that describe your relationship? Possibly, in some instances.
In other instances though, it would pay to put away the outrage machine, accept that the people providing you a service are just processing you through a system and don't really have time to work through each person's preferred descriptive terms and simply use the simple catch-all "partner" to refer to the person with whom you appear to be in some kind of relationship with.
It happens to everyone. It's not personal. It's not intended to offend or correct. It's not exclusive to same sex relationships.
Not every instance of the world not molding itself around your preferences is discrimination."