Same-Sex IVF: Four Issues UK LGBTQ Parents Face – “It’s Discrimination”

With every complicated hurdle involved in IVF, same-sex LGBTQ parents to be are they are told they need to pay for treatment by NHS England. Something they would receive for free, if they were straight.

It’s why social media stars Whitney and Megan Bacon-Evans have launched a landmark legal test case. Their case says a branch of the NHS fertility sector in England, discriminates against LGBTQ families.

In vitro fertilisation (IVF), where an egg is combined with sperm outside the body, has long been a ‘postcode lottery’ in the U.K.

There are disparities for all couples across the different nations, and even between NHS trusts across the

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