Denmark allows lesbian fertility treatment

A bill giving lesbians and single women the right to artificial insemination in government health clinics narrowly passed the Danish legislature.

Under previous law, doctors could not legally give lesbians fertility treatment.

The final vote 87 to 83, the Copenhagen Post reported. The bill's passage was preceded by a week of debate, and consideration of one suggested compromise that would have made fertility treatments legal for single women of any sexual orientation, but not at government clinics.