The National Health Service (NHS) in Britain is offering two gay men IVF treatment.

For years the NHS denied gay male couples the treatment due to a full ban on using surrogate mothers. The law was changed two years ago by the Scottish government so any couple can be eligible for free treatment.

The married couple will be using the service to conceive a baby using the sperm of one of them and a surrogate mother. The NHS will fund the donor egg being fertilized, alongside embryo implantation, according to the Mail on the Sunday.

The couple posted an appeal online for an egg donor that was seen by the paper.

It read: ‘Our NHS clinic don’t have any anonymous egg donors, they advised us we would need to find a known egg donor. Any suggestions how to go about it?’

Then when a friend commented that they didn’t know the NHS was offering this treatment, he replied: ‘Yes, it’s a new service they offer in Scotland… we only found out when the GP referred us.’

A Scottish Government spokesman confirmed to the Mail the fertility treatment was being offered to men in same-sex relationships. They clarified that the NHS would not find them a surrogate.

It is believed there have been no other cases of IVF treatment for people in England and Wales.

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