Fertility treatments are only allowed for married women in Hong Kong, where same-sex marriage is still not recognized. A lesbian couple is now looking to go abroad to conceive a child — an expensive and lengthy option that comes with legal complications.
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00:00 We're just the same people who want a family, who want to be loved, and we navigate our
00:06 way through it, even if the environment or the society doesn't allow you to.
00:25 If I want to do it, nobody's going to do it for me, because I'm not a married person.
00:30 Married in the sense that I have to be married to a man, which is unlikely to happen for me.
00:35 The law is conservative and restrictive.
00:50 Basically it's only available to couples who are married.
00:53 As Simpson's marriage is not recognised in Hong Kong, I would say it's pretty much a dead end.
00:58 We've looked at the price, we've looked at the service, we've heard from people around us.
01:12 So we might do it in the US, and also we know that Taiwan and Japan are some options as well.
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01:51 We can do IVF, which is my own egg, and also I'll be the one who bears the child.
01:58 So technically, my partner has nothing to do with it, in terms of leave.
02:03 No, no, I'm going to take care of you and bring waters.
02:08 Yeah, so in terms of the daily care, of course she's going to play a huge part among the relationship and in this family.
02:16 But the problem is legally, she's not recognised, because technically she's not the mother.
02:22 She's not the one who bears the child, because in Hong Kong law, the one who bears the child is the mother.
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