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Lesbian couple win fight for IVF on the NHS
Catherine McDiarmid-Watt |
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 |
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A LESBIAN couple have won the right to IVF [in vitro fertilization] on the NHS [National Health Service] after a legal tussle, ahead of laws that will put same-sex patients on an equal footing with heterosexuals.
The couple, who remain anonymous, had to go through a legal fight to push the NHS to fund IVF because, at the moment, individual trusts decide whether they wish to pay for treatment for lesbians.
The couple were initially refused IVF by their primary care trust because they were of the same sex. One of the women had polycystic ovarian syndrome, which disrupts ovulation, and is one of the most common causes of infertility.
Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6719152.ece
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About Catherine: I am mom to three grown sons, two grandchildren and two rescue dogs. After years of raising my boys as a single mom, I remarried a wonderful man who had never had a child of his own. Unexpectedly, I found myself pregnant at 49!
Sadly we lost that precious baby at 8 weeks, and decided to try again. Five more losses, turned down for donor egg, foster care and adoption due to my age and losses - we have accepted that there will be no more babies in our house.
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A LESBIAN couple have won the right to IVF [in vitro fertilization] on the NHS [National Health Service] after a legal tussle, ahead of laws that will put same-sex patients on an equal footing with heterosexuals.
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