Gay couple buys twin baby boys
By Peta Hellard and Liam Houlihan
October 14, 2007

A MELBOURNE gay couple have travelled to the US to buy "designer twin boys" through a surrogate mother at a cost of up to $133,000.

Brian Sheldon and Matthew Shaffer are one of several gay Victorian couples taking advantage of California's liberal IVF laws.

The couple ordered the two babies - even choosing their preferred sex, male - through US IVF pioneer Dr Jeffrey Steinberg.

The Australian Family Association believed it was tantamount to "trafficking in children", while the two fathers yesterday defended their decision to start a family. the rest