DOZENS of gay British men have paid about £33,000 to create a baby of their chosen sex on an IVF programme for two-father families.
Nearly 20 male couples from this country have already taken part in the scheme, in which they pay for eggs from a university student which are then implanted in a different woman who bears the child.
The Fertility Institutes, the clinic in Los Angeles which runs the programme, said it had also received 25 inquiries by last week from male couples in Britain thinking of paying for surrogate children.
The programme is thought to be the first specialist surrogacy scheme dedicated to “two-father” families.
The men can even choose whether to have boys or girls, with three-quarters so far opting for male babies.
The clinic said it was meeting the demand from gay men who were desperate to become parents but were unable to start a family in Britain because of the shortage of donor eggs and surrogate mothers
Nearly 20 male couples from this country have already taken part in the scheme, in which they pay for eggs from a university student which are then implanted in a different woman who bears the child.
The Fertility Institutes, the clinic in Los Angeles which runs the programme, said it had also received 25 inquiries by last week from male couples in Britain thinking of paying for surrogate children.
The programme is thought to be the first specialist surrogacy scheme dedicated to “two-father” families.
The men can even choose whether to have boys or girls, with three-quarters so far opting for male babies.
The clinic said it was meeting the demand from gay men who were desperate to become parents but were unable to start a family in Britain because of the shortage of donor eggs and surrogate mothers
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