Viv Henscombe's Story of a Lesbian Mother

In the 19 seventies, a lesbian community organization called sappho started arranging for some of its members to receive artificial insemination treatment that they could conceive. There was so much hostility and stigma around being gay at that time that any doctor who was helping lesbians conceive, although it wasn't actually illegal, was really taking a risk with their reputation. And i've been talking to one of the mothers, her name was jill hanscomb, about what happened nextm Doctor: "I had always wanted to be a mother, but because i'd also always been a lesbian, i couldn't imagine how to be aMother"