Report in Britain on lesbians' babies touches off protest

LONDON (AP) A newspaper report that some lesbian couples have babies by artificial insemination stirred sharp protest yesterday from persons concerned about the chil dren's health and home life.

Dr. Rhodes Boyson, a Conservative lawmaker, declared: "To bring children into this world without a natural father is evil and selfish. This evil must stop for the sake of the potential children and society, which both have enough problems without the extension of this horrific practice."

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Defenders of lesbian births besieged London's Evening News, which carried the birth report Thursday. It said 10 such births have occurred in Britain.

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Two dozen men and women staged a sit-in, threw stink bombs in the newsroom and chanted such slogans as "Sisters, we shall not be moved,” "Lesbian women unite, this is a women's fight" and "Every woman has the right to have a child."

The group dispersed only after editor Louis Kirby agreed to meet

the demonstrators. Kirby said later he offered to publish the protesters' reply to the newspaper. series on lesbian births but refused a demand to discontinue the investigative series*

The News said a top London doctor had helped 10 lesbians to have children through artificial insemination. A lesbian organization, Sappho, identified the doctor as gynecologist David M. Sopher, who runs a private clinic in London's fashionable Belgravia quarter.

Several British lawmakers, the majority of them members of the opposition Conservative party, condemned the use of artificial insemination to provide lesbians with children. Sir George Young said he regarded such activities as "unnatual and immoral.”

He said he plans to ask Health Minister David Ennals to draw up guidelines with the British Medical Association to insure that artificial insemination is available only to married couples of different sexes.