(Providence, RI)--Governor Gina Raimondo signed the Rhode Island Parentage Act into law on Tuesday. The bill is aimed at removing obstacles to legal parenthood for LGBTQ people.The legislation replaces a previous, decades-old parentage law that the sponsors of the new one said was outdated.According to the General Assembly, the bill provides the following paths for legal parentage in Rhode Island: birth, adoption, acknowledgment, adjudication, genetics, assisted reproduction, surrogacy, de facto parentage and presumptions.
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