UK LESBIAN SEEKS TO GIVE BIRTH TO PARTNER'S BABY: From 365Gay.com

A lesbian is hoping to make British history by becoming the first in the UK to give birth to her partner's baby.

"We want a baby that has truly come from both of us," said Hayley Marlow, 29.

She and partner Vicky Hill, 22, have applied to the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority to have an egg from Hill impregnated through in vitro fertilization and then have the egg planted in Marlow's womb.

The HFE which oversees IVF procedures says there is no law prevented it. The procedure has been done in other countries, including the US, but has never before been done in Britain. ...

But, even if the procedure is successful there will remain some legal hurdles. Under British law the baby would belong to the birth mother, not the one who supplies the egg.

The HFE said that the only way the women could become equal parents would be if the mother who gave birth were to renounce her claim to the baby and then they could adopt it.

Marlow and Hill have been together for just over a year. Marlow already has a five-year-old daughter from a previous heterosexual relationship.

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