French lesbians have been crossing the border to Belgium in search of medical procedures to get pregnant, which are denied in France, creating a new sort of baby boom at Belgian fertility clinics.

Last year, 72 percent of the patients for insemination from sperm donors came from France, and the majority of them were lesbian, according to Dr Anne Delbaere, head of the fertility clinic at Erasme Hospital in the Belgian capital.

Since the clinic opened some 15 years ago, she said it has never rejected the requests of lesbians and single women, but it may not be able to continue to meet the demand from the influx of French patients.

“We do not have sufficient sperm donations in reserve to meet all the requests” for insemination, Delbaere said at a recent conference on homosexual parenting in Paris. [...]

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