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Lesbian couple who want a baby ‘told by GP to sleep with a man’

Source: PA

A lesbian couple looking to start a family have said they were asked by a GP why they did not find a man to sleep with to get pregnant.

Elissa Hillier, 32, and her wife Kaylee, 35, from Manchester, said they were also asked during the shocking consultation whether they knew that to have a baby they needed “human sperm”.

The couple had booked an appointment with a GP at the Orient Road Medical Practice in Salford to discuss their options in February 2023.

But they said the GP did not know how to proceed and that his advice left them feeling “scared, disappointed and upset”.

The couple, who then decided to go private, have since found a clinic in and one in the

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