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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Holly Evans

‘NHS treats same-sex couples like us as an afterthought over IVF treatment’

Tianne, right, and her wife Carina Spence-Stokes have already spent £13,500 on fertility treatment - (Supplied)

Since the moment their three-year-old daughter was born, Tianne Spence-Stokes and her partner Carina have seen their lives upended in the most magical way possible.

As a same-sex couple, they had spent years and thousands of pounds undergoing fertility treatments involving a sperm donor to get pregnant. In 2022, they welcomed their baby girl, who they describe as “the greatest joy of our lives”, and now hope to welcome a second child through in vitro fertilisation (IVF).

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