>Dozens of gay men are turning to an American IVF programme for two-father families to get around British laws that prevent surrogacy.
As reported by PinkNews.co.uk earlier this month, The Fertility Institute, a clinic in Los Angeles, has started running a programme where male couples pay for eggs from a university student to be implanted in another woman, often from a working-class background, who carries the child.
The sperm comes from one of the gay men.
It is illegal to pay both surrogate mothers and egg donors in Britain.
The Fertility Institute also enables couples to choose the sex of the child, which is also illegal in the UK and nearly every other Western nation.
So far, around three-quarters of couples have opted for male babies.
The programme is the first surrogacy scheme that accommodates two-father families.
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