Posted on 12/26/2005 11:04:49 AM PST by Coleus
FINLAND, December 23, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – 43 babies out of every thousand conceived using in vitro fertilization techniques are born with a serious deformity, according to yet another study indicating the dangers of IVF.
A report by Stakes, Finland’s National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, found a significant increase in the rate of birth deformity among IVF infants. Normal rates would be 29 per thousand. In particular, the study found a higher rate of genital malformation among IVF boy babies.
There have been increasing numbers of studies linking infant health problems with IVF techniques over the past few years. Studies from a variety of sources have indicated significantly higher rates of birth defects, including genetic abnormalities, brain disorders, and developmental delays.
There is no conclusive research yet as to why the two are linked.
In vitro fertilization techniques cause the death of hundreds of thousands of babies in the earliest stages of development, discarded as “unsuitable” for a variety of reasons during the embryo selection process.
See related LifeSiteNews coverage:
IVF Babies up to 40% More Likely to Suffer Severe Birth Defects
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jan/05013107.html
Researchers Admit IVF Carries Higher Birth Defect Risk
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/sep/03092206.html
Study Finds Brain Problems in IVF Children
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/feb/02020802.html
IVF Babies at Greater Risk for Genetic Disorder
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/aug/04081707.html
Well, I've always thought the old-fashioned method both less expensive and more fun.
It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.
A "crime".......and "it's not nice to fool Mother Nature"? Tell that to my beautiful and healthy twin 3 year old boys. After my wife and I lost FIVE babies, we were able to bring these miracles into the world.
This science exists because the good Lord gave us the building blocks that enable the Doctors to perform this wonderful service.
Calling it what you people have is beneath contempt. Walk a mile first, pals.
his should be no surprise.
Anyone who wants kids and doesn't think adoption is a proper substitute for fertility is a self-absorbed, narcissistic megalomaniac.
The massive fertility industry is a symptom of just how low the USA can be.
I'm not the one compiling the statistics.
BTW, having children is about the children, not the parents.
Wow! self-absorbed?........narcissistic megalomaniac? Wanting my own family makes me so, huh? Ever checked into the wait time for adoption? Of course, I'm jsut being self-absorbed.
Hey, thanks for the familial advice. Without IVF, my children wouldn't be here. Of course, it's all about me.
I am a staunch conservative, but spare me the sanctimony.
So how many children have you adopted? You don't have to be infertile to adopt, and the kids don't have to be healthy white infants.
This science exists because the good Lord gave us the building blocks that enable the Doctors to perform this wonderful service.
Just because a technology exists doesn't mean God condones it; He merely allows it since we are free-will creatures. According to your logic, Hitler's gas chambers would be a good thing as well. You cannot take what you think is good (or bad) and attribute any goodness (or badness) to the fact that it exists.
Are you telling me that it was easier to do artificial sex than to do an adoption?
Someone else's DNA not good enough? Or is this all about making another you?
I notice you said "twins" -- There are many studies, similar to this one, that say that the kids produced by IVF are genetically more fragile. But heck, who cares abiut what happens to the results of these procedures. You throw the dice and if you create a human being that is genetically deficient, who cares? I mean it is all about you.
You lucked out (maybe). What gave you the right to create a human being on purpose who had a much, much higher chance of deformities and other illnesses? That person will have to live with it for their entire life.
Oh, sorry. It takes too long to go through adoption. Better to take the chance of creating a person with a miserable (and perhaps short) life.
ps: I would pray nightly that your kids can have normal kids, if I were you. I will pray for them as well.
Good point........hadn't really thought along those lines. Of course, the gas chambers were more of an industrial-type science.........wait a minute, science none the less!!
IVF is near and dear to my heart, and sometimes the passion comes bubbling up much too quick.
I made the overty decision not to have kids -- it appeared aerly that I wasn't going to cerate any so I shut off the valve.
I don't think I would be a proper parent, so I instead sponsor children. It isn't the same but at least I didn't take the chance of harming anyone on purpose to gratify my need to make another me, when it wasn't in the cards.
Just curious (I am an adoption attorney and I have just started an adoption agency) how long did it take you from start to finish (i.e, first "event" whatever that would be) to live birth) and how much did the whole thing cost, including pregnancy related expenses?
How many kids have you adopted, again? Ever considered the chance that both things (IVF and adoption) were in the pipeline?
EVERY time a blessed pregnancy occurs, the dice is rolled. If you read the results of the study it says that there are 29 per as opposed to 43 with IVF. Are you willing to castigate the parents of the 29? Oh, that's right.......they did it naturally.
Sanctimonius twit.
Are you asking how much the IVF cost?
That is disengenuous and you know it.
The chances of birth defect is SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER -- this study even says so (the same is true for much older people creating kids).
It wasn't YOUR dice you were rolling. It was someone else's.
My anaylsis is apt,. my personal decisions notithstanding. Like I said, when I was adjudged shooting blanks, I saw the handwriting on the wall and decided that making another me wasn't that important. I looked at the data of the time and decided that creating a child who had a high probability to have a defect would be a bad thing to do.
I am sure you love your kids -- but you may have already condemnded them or their children to problems down the road. On purpose. For no other reason than because you wanted to make another you.
That is why I will pray for them.
Yes, also is ukwildcats the U of Kentucky? My daughter goes to grad school there in Lexington
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