![]() ![]() They purchased donated sperm through a fertility clinic and tried IUI, but multiple expensive attempts failed. Once they were finally on the same page, it wasn’t an easy road to motherhood. ![]() By that time she already had an inkling of her sexuality, so suspected that she might one day require fertility help herself.īy the time she met her partner, Kellie, she knew she wanted to be a mother Kellie was unsure. “That’s the thing there are no accidental children born to homosexuals – these babies are always planned for, and always wanted.”īerney remembers hearing the term “test-tube baby” for the first time in a fifth-grade sex ed class taught by a lesbian teacher at her Quaker school. “It’s a fundamentally queer principle to build a family out of the pieces you have” Several 2021 memoirs have given me a deeper understanding of the special challenges involved when queer couples decide they want to have children. ![]()
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