The British House of Commons has voted to remove the need for doctors to consider the need for a father when assessing women for fertility treatments, according to PinkNews. Doctors will now consider whether a child will have ’supportive parenting.’

MPs voted 292 to 217 against an amendment by former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith that would have retained the need for a father. A second amendment that would have required consideration of “a father or a male role model” was defeated by 290 votes to 222.

Read the following for some really odd arguments made by those who opposed the amendment:

Veteran Tory MP Sir Patrick Cormack claimed that he has many lesbian and gay friends who agree with him that children are God-given and that lesbian or gay couples are not able to raise a child as well as a heterosexual couple.

Labour MP Geraldine Smith tried to argue that no lesbian had ever complained that she had been discriminated against.

Some MPs such as former Home Secretary David Blunkett and Tory Tim Loughton said that it is acceptable that children are adopted by same-sex couples but a child created without a father is not.

DUP MP Iris Robinson told the House that she believed that Eve was created from Adam’s rib, and claimed that her Christian views were being mocked by other MPs. “You are putting the rights of lesbians above all others in this country and you should hang your heads in shame,” she said.