Lesbian Couple Win Right To IVF On NHS

For the second time this year a British same sex lesbian couple have won the right to IVF on the NHS after a legal victory. The couple, one of whom suffers with Polycystic Ovaries, had initially been refused IVF by their Primary Care Trust on the grounds of them being a same sex couple.

From October clinics will ask same sex couples to demonstrate that they can offer ’supportive parenting’ and the present ‘need for a father’ cited by many IVF clinics will cease to be a determining factor in carrying out fertility treatment.