Posted on 10/13/2019 7:56:35 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
When couples struggling to conceive approach an infertility clinic for help, they’re not just patients seeing a doctor: they’re also healthcare consumers navigating a billion-dollar industry. All too often, they’re also sucked onto a moving sidewalk designed to effortlessly take them from one intervention to another, without stopping to heal their spirits, discern their options, or possibly close their wallets. That’s what happened to me.
I should be clear: I feel that most of the doctors we talked to were sincerely trying to help. This was especially the case with the reproductive endocrinologists who worked with nonprofit hospitals. They are compassionate people who chose their jobs because they want to bring families the greatest joy imaginable: parenthood!
Unfortunately, in their field, that is also the only real measure of success. Baby? Mission accomplished! No baby? Failure. This attitude leads to a cascade of procedures as the treatment team gradually moves from trying to heal the patient, to jerry-rigging a pregnancy. In the most extreme situations, rather than admit defeat in the battle against infertility, doctors can simply bypass the patient’s wounded body entirely, leading to an odd situation in which the “patients” are not actually receiving any medical care – a surrogate can carry a pregnancy conceived with the genetic material of two anonymous donors. The baby’s birth is counted as a treatment success, even though no one’s body has been healed.
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It’s sad that when there is such a yearning for children there are still so many abortions! Young couples today start out trying to NOT get pregnant and then when they think they are finally ready, they find they can’t GET pregnant.
I truly believe that in God’s wisdom - for it is He who opens and closes the womb - couples who are unable to conceive are meant to adopt the children of those who are unable to parent. There are huge waiting lists of people who want to adopt a child. Abortion should be UNTHINKABLE!
Adopt. If you cannot bear
True. I’ve had discussions with people about how this works. Fertility in both men and women declines as we age. Fertility for most couples, assuming they are in a couple and wanting to conceive, is excellent in their 20s. Yet the decade of one’s twenties is a decade in which many try to avoid pregnancy, due to attending college, grad school, and trying to build a career before staring a family.
Based only on biological fertility, and if there were no other considerations, both males and females would seek to marry and have children in their late teens and early twenties. That is, if there were no other life goals or considerations in their lives.
I hope Trump comes out with a huge Adoption initiative to make it easier for children to be adopted to good (or OK) families.
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