IVF treatment's popularity has soard this decade.
The number of lesbian couples undergoing IVF treatment leapt from 176 in 2007 to 350 in 2009, according to figures reportd by Mail Online.
In 2008, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act allowed for the first time two mothers or fathers to be named on a child’s birth certificate.
It also removed the requirement of a father figure in the child’s life in favour of “supportive” parenting without regard to gender.
Gary Nunn, of Stonewall, said: “Now the law has changed it has made it fairer and easier for them to get treatment.”
Norman Wells, the director of the Family Education Trust, who disagreed with removing the requirement of a male figure, said: “It was always inevitable that removing the legal requirement to consider the need of a child for a father would result in a rise in fatherless families.
“The change in the law had nothing to do with the welfare of children and everything to do with the desires of adults to subvert the natural order and redefine the family to suit themselves.”
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Wednesday, 22 December 2010
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Women aged 40 and over could be given free IVF treatment
The current guidance says all infertile women aged between 23 and 39 should be offered three cycles of treatment for free on the NHS, however few Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) meet this in full.
NICE is currently reviewing the guidelines to make sure that they comply with the Equality Act passed by the previous Government which promised to end many types of discrimination.
Documents seen by The Sunday Telegraph disclose that the rationing body is also considering how to ensure lesbians and single women have the same rights as heterosexual couples for treatment if they are thought to be infertile.
Rules which deny treatment to those whose partners have children are also likely to be axed, according to the minutes from a NICE committee debating the issues.
No decisions have been taken on any of the ideas which are intended to promote "equality of opportunity".
To read more go to http://bit.ly/cpsHKU
NICE is currently reviewing the guidelines to make sure that they comply with the Equality Act passed by the previous Government which promised to end many types of discrimination.
Documents seen by The Sunday Telegraph disclose that the rationing body is also considering how to ensure lesbians and single women have the same rights as heterosexual couples for treatment if they are thought to be infertile.
Rules which deny treatment to those whose partners have children are also likely to be axed, according to the minutes from a NICE committee debating the issues.
No decisions have been taken on any of the ideas which are intended to promote "equality of opportunity".
To read more go to http://bit.ly/cpsHKU
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