Posted on 10/14/2023 3:12:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Same-sex couples have to pay thousands of pounds before they can access IVF fertility treatment through the NHS in contrast to the process for heterosexual couples which has been labelled as a “Gay Tax”, according to a report.
As reported by the BBC, NHS England funds IVF for heterosexual couples who have been trying to conceive, unsuccessfully, for at least two years whilst other details such as age and weight status.
However, campaigners are aggrieved that same-sex couples face a different process in that they need to prove their infertility before the NHS will commit to IVF but as part of this, they must pay for several rounds of artificial insemination.
This BBC report details that some couples have spent in excess of £20,000 on the treatment.
That is a huge detriment to being able to start a family for a lot of people in the UK, with several examples detailed by the BBC.
A same-sex couple from Dorset, Sarah and Faye, both aged 33, were faced with costs of £30,000 for artificial insemination. So far they have spent their life savings of £22,000 to no avail. Their experience has made them feel they are being discriminated against.
Kate and her wife Keri, spent more than £17,00o on AI and IVF. After they moved to China for a couple of years to both work as teachers and crucially to build savings, Kate gave birth to their child earlier this year.
“There’s no way we would have been able to make it work in the UK,” said Kate.
“We’ve got friends who are having to get loans to try and start a family and then if that’s not successful, you’re left with a big loan and no baby. It’s a vicious cycle and it’s devastating.”
Kerri stated, “We’ve chosen to start a family – but we didn’t choose to be gay. The existing rules are like a gay tax”.
Different approaches in the UK to IVF and artificial insemination The government has previously pledged fairer access to NHS fertility treatment for same-sex couples and single women, but to date, nothing meaningful has changed.
Campaigners are striving for the need to privately fund treatment to be abolished and for parity to be established, as well as holding the government to its promise.
This applies to England – with access varying by locality – as well as Wales and Northern Ireland.
Scotland stands alone as the only constituent UK country to provide donor insemination to same-sex couples without requiring them to have initially instigated costly rounds of private treatments.
I'm pretty sure you could've found some dude to f*** you for free.
I see your point. But fair's fair.
Having psycho-cases like you mouthing off about your right to borrow normal people's body parts so you can Frankenstein yourselves a baby is a tax on everyone else--most of all, the poor, innocent baby.
People who get IVF funded because they have an abnormal physical condition are one thing, and I can find circumstances that I would agree to that.
People who get IVF funded because they are bucking the laws of nature and want to spend money to work around their active and conscious decisions are something completely different.
This is why there has been a constant and ongoing search by the Left to find a homosexuality gene, so that douchebags like this can say it is a civil rights issue because they have no more control of their sexuality than they do of the color of their skin.
No such homosexuality gene exists.
Ah, socialism. Free health care is never enough. The NHS must also provide social engineering.
Personally insurance shouldn’t pay for either couples, unless the state is somehow responsible for either person being infertile.
This demand is the drumbeat in the US as well. Homosexual “couples“ are clamoring after tax deductions for medical services rendered to people who are NOT members of their family but who are incubators for “their” children.
I thought the “gay tax” was AIDS? It taxes the body to death.
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