Virgins go for IV babies while waiting for their Mr Right

28 September 2015 - 02:02 By ©The Telegraph

Dozens of young heterosexual British virgins have given birth after undergoing artificial insemination, it has been reported. Doctors claim there have been at least 25 such births in the past five years.They said their patients were single women who had never had sexual intercourse but wanted to have a child now and save sex for a "special relationship" - or they were women who were afraid of sex.Maha Ragunath, medical director of Care Fertility's clinic in Nottingham, said: "The number of single women I see has doubled over the last decade, now accounting for at least 10% of my patients."A lot of them are very young, in their 20s, sometimes studying or doing very ordinary jobs, and often living with their parents."Josephine Quintavalle, of the group Comment on Reproductive Ethics, said: "What is the child for these women? A teddy bear that they pick off the shelf?"The message from nature is for a male and female to have a child and I am saddened that we are willing to distort this. The diminished role of the father is not desirable for the child."Tracey Sainsbury, of The London Women's Clinic, said: "Some feel they have not found the right partner with whom to share sex."Geeta Nargund, of Create Fertility, and Mohamed Taranissi, of the Assisted Reproduction and Gynaecology Centre, said they, too, had helped virgin heterosexuals conceive...

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