12 Aug 2019

Same sex couples want equal access to IVF public funding

From First Up, 5:55 am on 12 August 2019

A same-sex couple wanting to have their first child want to see IVF treatment publicly funded for couples in their situation. Ryan and Jerome Curran-Pacquing have launched a give a little page to raise 25 thousand dollars to pay for one round of IVF treatment. The married couple have an egg-donor and a surrogate, but don't have access to the money to pay for the treatment. They also want to see the laws around surrogacy change - under current legislation they would have no legal rights to be parents of the child until an official adoption process has taken place. Indira spoke to them about their fundraising efforts and what legal changes they would like to see happen.