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  Adoption and Children Bill &#8212; [3rd Allotted Day] &#8212; Clause 131 &#8212; General interpretation, etc.
  
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  <p>This amendment to the Adoption and Children Bill would have allowed unmarried heterosexual couples to adopt children.  (Homosexual couples were specifically excluded.)  The no-voters defeated this amendment.</p>
  
  <p><i>The House divided:</i> Ayes 174, Noes 301.</p>
  
  
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