in: http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/10083
Same-sex couples will have the same access to IVF treatment as heterosexual couples under guidelines
issued by the UK’s health advisory service, the National Institute for
Health and Clinical Excellence. The upper age limit for
government-funded IVF will rise by three years to 42.
Government health authorities in England and Wales are to fund
intra-uterine insemination (IUI), using donor sperm, for lesbians. If
they fail to conceive after six cycles of IUI, they will considered for
in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), which is much more costly and involved.
The health system in the UK normally pays for up to three cycles of IVF for
couples who have been trying to get pregnant for at least three years.
Previously, women had to be under age 40 to qualify. Many
government-funded clinics already treat gay and lesbian couples, but the
guidelines now make that explicit, though they are not binding.
The London Telegraph points out
that the change follows a relaxation in the law, made under Labour in
2008, to put same-sex parenting on an equal legal footing. Under the the
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, IVF clinics no longer had
to take into account a child’s need for a father or a male role model
before agreeing to treatment. Same-sex couples or single women now need
only show they can provide "supportive parenting".
In the wake of this, there was boom in lesbian couples undergoing IVF. The figure rose from 178 in 2007 to 417 in 2010.
Josephine Quintavalle, founder of Comment on Reproductive Ethics, described the same-sex move as "absurd".
"We are not prepared to accept what
constitutes fertility from a biological perspective. Fertility treatment
is very important but in this case what we are trying to do is rewrite
biology."
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