Lesbian couple claim £20,000 damages after NHS refuses them fertility treatment

February 27, 2009

Caroline Harris and Julie McMullan claim they are victims of discrimination because they are a same sex couple and have asked a judge to order fertility treatment for Miss Harris.

But Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Health Board insists that its expensive “assisted conception service” is for couples who have been trying without success to conceive “in the normal way”. (Telegraph)