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28/01/2019
The married couple plan to go ahead with the treatment, according to The Mail on Sunday.
The NHS will fund the IVF fertilisation process and the embryo from one of the males will be planted into a surrogate mother.
The service has previously refused to offer gay male couples the fertility treatment because of a "blanket ban" on funding for services that involve the use of a surrogate.
However, Scotland's government changed that policy two years ago meaning that, regardless of sexual orientation or gender, any couple can access IVF.
In 2013, the NHS updated its guidance so it could be made available to same-sex couples and single women with fertility issues in Scotland, England and Wales.
But this amendment only benefited same-sex female couples because of the ban on using surrogates.
Those wanting to access the free IVF treatment were required to show infertility by demonstrating that they had failed to get pregnant after a number of attempts using artificial insemination.
(JG/CM)
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Same-Sex Male Couple Offered Fertility Treatment On NHS
A gay couple in Scotland have been offered IVF treatment by the NHS, marking what is believed to be the first opportunity of its kind in the UK.The married couple plan to go ahead with the treatment, according to The Mail on Sunday.
The NHS will fund the IVF fertilisation process and the embryo from one of the males will be planted into a surrogate mother.
The service has previously refused to offer gay male couples the fertility treatment because of a "blanket ban" on funding for services that involve the use of a surrogate.
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However, Scotland's government changed that policy two years ago meaning that, regardless of sexual orientation or gender, any couple can access IVF.
In 2013, the NHS updated its guidance so it could be made available to same-sex couples and single women with fertility issues in Scotland, England and Wales.
But this amendment only benefited same-sex female couples because of the ban on using surrogates.
Those wanting to access the free IVF treatment were required to show infertility by demonstrating that they had failed to get pregnant after a number of attempts using artificial insemination.
(JG/CM)
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