Deputies drafting bill to allow homosexual couples to adopt their biological children

A group of MPs across the political spectrum are preparing an amendment to the law which would allow registered homosexual couples to adopt their biological children. Civic Democrat deputy Jana Cernochova, one of the authors of the amendment, told the CTK news agency that this was to formalize an existing state of affairs, where children already live with one of their parents in a same-sex registered partnership but cannot be legally adopted. She said the proposed amendment to the law was minimalist in order to give it a better chance of passing through Parliament.