Posted on 07/24/2007 3:36:10 PM PDT by wagglebee
LONDON, England, July 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A recent British study shows that children conceived by IVF have increased health problems and spend almost double the time in hospital than naturally conceived children, the Daily Mail reports.
The 7-year follow-up study, done in conjunction with Finnish studies, compared the hospital costs of IVF-conceived children to naturally conceived children. It examined 303 IVF-conceived children as well as 567 naturally-conceived children, all of whom were born between the years 1990 and 1995. Prior studies had reviewed the pregnancies of these children, their medical history and neo-natal health as well as the case notes of their hospitalization.
Published in the June 21, 2007 issue of Human Reproduction, the study showed that on average, a child conceived through IVF was in hospital significantly more times (1.76 vs. 1.07 times) than a naturally conceived child.
Dr. Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, professor at Imperial College London and one of the lead researchers behind the report, told LifeSiteNews.com, "What we showed was that actually there were certain disease groups which were more common among those born after IVF." She added that this included "certain infections, respiratory disease, and inflammatory disease," and noted that there are some neurological disorders that are slightly more common as well.
The report also notes that low birth weight and pre-term birth have been linked to IVF, but these results may be influenced by the multiple births often resulting from IVF. Nevertheless, single IVF children were also sicker than naturally conceived children and spent more time in the hospital. During the 7-year period, 61% of the singleton IVF children were hospitalized versus 46% of the naturally conceived singletons.
Jarvelin told LifeSiteNews.com that researchers don't know the reasons for the increased amount of certain diseases among IVF children. Most of the children born through IVF, however, are still healthy children, she said, "But we have to be more cautious and parents should be carefully informed that there might be some dangers that we might not know."
There are dangers involved in the multiple implantations of embryos involved in IVF, but this is not recommended anymore, said Jarvelin, because the fetuses are at higher risk.
The IVF mother is also at higher risk, not only from multiple implantations, but from other clinical problems such as blood toxemia. There is an additional, very rare condition seen among IVF women called Ovum Stimulation Syndrome, Jarvelin stated, that is caused by the medication that is used to stimulate ovaries during the IVF process. She stated that it can be "quite dangerous" for the woman.
"What this research really means," she concluded, "is that we need studies following these children…It shows that we need follow-up and long-term studies to see whether these people are really more healthy than naturally conceived children."
These newest findings are in accordance with past studies that have indicated that children who are conceived through IVF have a higher risk of deformity and over-all health problems. These problems include cerebral palsy, higher mortality rates and "ambiguous genitalia".
Read related LifeSiteNews stories:
UK Doctors Warn IVF Drugs Pose Health Hazard for Mothers
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/oct/06101104.html
Mounting Evidence of IVF Defects
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/mar/03032107.html
IVF Children Suffer More Over-All Health Problems Than Naturally-Conceived Children
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/dec/06120409.html
Finnish Study finds IVF Increases Risk of Deformity
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/dec/05122311.html
IVF Babies up to 40% More Likely to Suffer Severe Birth Defects
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jan/05013107.html
Read UK's Daily Mail coverage:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/health...
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If the mother and the father can’t naturally combine then why should forcing it lead to positive results?
Like the old Parkay cool commercial said, “It’s not nice to fool mother nature.”
That’s what I call a statistically significant difference!!
By the way, this is a well-kept secret — until now!
What’s your point?
So, this justifies the creation of embryos with the intent of destroying them and playing God to pursue their own selfish wishes?
Is he using IVF or artificial insemination/ I have noy heard of using IVF on livestock (it is very expensive), but I know that artificial insemination is fairly common.
If my child can’t naturally fight off an infection why should I take said child to the doctor thereby ‘forcing’ the infection out with modern medicine?
If you look at the astounding complexity of reproduction, two things really stand out.
First, with all the incredible barriers that exist to procreation, that it can take place at all. Second, that the incredible amount of redundancy is there because it is very hard to find just the right combination of things to produce a viable and healthy offspring.
To start with, in human males, there are at least three known different kinds of sperm produced. Only one of the three is apparently intended to get to the egg at all. The other two, “blocking” and “fighting” sperm have the purpose to stop any other male’s sperm from reaching the egg.
So what if you use the wrong kind of sperm to fertilize an egg? Good question.
Semen has ingredients in it that first make it clump together, to get the sperm as deeply into the vagina as possible, then after a time it liquifies, so that the sperm can start swimming. But it only works if it does what it is supposed to, otherwise it is either too far for the sperm to swim, or they are immobilized in the semen.
As far as females are concerned, not only does the pH of their vagina have to rapidly change when the male ejaculates, or else it is a hostile environment for his sperm, but his semen needs to pool near where the ends of the fallopian tubes will dip down into it, to shorten the distance to the egg.
Then there are all sorts of other factors, such as the part of the menstrual cycle, the female’s body temperature, and foods or other substances she has consumed recently.
And those are just the variables off the top of my head.
But the idea that you could just take and egg and a sperm, pop them in a test tube, shake and have a viable and healthy fetus takes a pretty great stretch of the imagination.
So, you are totally unaware that multiple embryos are created for IVF, many die on their own and many are also deliberately aborted?
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