Susanna Reid apologised for posing an 'insensitive' question to a married lesbian couple.
The presenter was interviewing Megan and Whitney Bacon-Evans on Good Morning Britain when she made the faux pas.
The couple, who have been together for 13 years, are planning to sue the NHS for discrimination after claiming same-sex couples face more hurdles while trying to start a family through the health service.
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Quizzing them about their family plans Susanna asked: "Who wants to be mum?”
She asked: “What are your dreams, what are your hopes? Who wants to be mum? How many children would you like to have?”
Megan replied: “Well we both want to be mum…”
Apologising immediately for her error Susanna responded: “Sorry. Of course you both want to be mum as in, of course you'll both be mum... I apologise for that insensitivity.”
She then put the question to them again as: “Who wants to carry the baby?”
Whitney then said: “Megan’s going to go first, hopefully. She is a year older, so it just made sense.”
And she added: "Hopefully in a few years I will have a go."
The social media influencers explained to followers that they plan to take legal action to make having a child easier same-sex couples.
They announced on their Instagram: "This has been so hard not to tell you all but it’s probably the most important thing we’ve possibly ever done.
"As you all know, we were shocked and devastated to discover the discrimination that lesbian couples, bisexual women and individuals with wombs face in starting their family.
"LGBTQ+ couples are not entitled to the same access to fertility treatment as cis heterosexual couples.
"We have therefore instructed the top UK law firm @leighday_law, with barristers Jude Bunting and Marlena Valles, to represent us to take action against our CCG’s (Clinical Commissioning Group) discriminatory policies which prevent us from having equal access to fertility treatment.
"We’re doing this for every LGBTQ+ couple who had to give up on their hopes and dreams of creating a family.
"If found to be unlawful, this could positively impact the lives of tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of LGBTQ+ people embarking on their path to parenthood now & in the future to come."
They added: "It is time for discrimination to end and for there to be equal treatment with heterosexual couples in the healthcare system."
The couple's local NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) policy states that female same-sex couples must self-fund 12 rounds of artificial insemination, six of which must be IUI (Intrauterine insemination a fertility treatment that involves directly inserting sperm into a woman's womb) in a private clinic.
As they have chosen a sperm donor from a sperm bank, their only option is to have artificial insemination in a private fertility clinic which could reach £50,000.
However heterosexual couples can qualify for IVF on the NHS if they have not become pregnant after two years of unprotected sex.
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