Posted on 07/31/2009 7:38:59 AM PDT by Bushwacker777
"Increasing numbers of childless British couples are being forced to have fertility treatment abroad because of patchy NHS provision and plummeting donor rates, campaigners have told Sky News.
National guidelines say all primary care trusts (PCTs) should offer three courses of in vitro fertilisation (IVF), but in reality more than two in three do not.
And even those who can afford to go private are finding the number of egg and sperm donors increasingly scarce.
The decline has been blamed on a change in the law ending donor anonymity and the lack of any payment as an incentive.
A recent survey of so-called "fertility tourism" revealed British women who seek medical help with conception abroad are more likely than any other European nationality to cite access difficulties as their main reason for doing so."
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Purposely trying to breed the Europeans out of existence, as if birth rates there already aren’t low enough??
Don’t worry, Brits. Muslimahs in the U.K. are popping out scads of future terrorists, so your population figures will actually rise.
OTOH, do worry. Worry a lot.
Mixed blessing.
IVF is an unnatural method anyway.
Birth control is more un-natural.
Surgery and modern medicine is “unnatural” too.
There was religious objection to anesthesia, once upon a time, not too long ago.
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