Scottish lesbians may get free IVF
Filed under: Uncategorized — Alan @ 6:43 am
Lesbian couples that want to seek fertility treatment in Scotland will soon be able to on the NHS.
After the government was involved in legal action with a lesbian couple, they decided to set up an advisory group, which is expected by the beginning of next year, to recommend that lesbians should have equal access to fertility services from NHS.
Julia McMullan and her partner Caroline Harris fought against the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde chapter, at the beginning of this year for the right to receive free fertility treatment like any other couple.
Although the trust argued that their case was not the true definition of an infertile couple, it backed down from its stance after the couple threatened to sue on the terms of discrimination.
Currently the NHS Lothian provides IVF via a donor and donor insemination to lesbian couples in a ‘case by case’ basis.
A spokeswoman for the NHS stated that at the moment NHS guidelines do not exclude same sex couples, and that there are some NHS boards throughout the region that do allow same sex couples to seek infertility services.
A spokesman for the Scottish Catholic Church has already attacked the recommendation, stating that the money is being spent frivolously, when people with terrible illnesses cannot get the treatment that they require.
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