Posted on 12/15/2019 12:34:59 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
With increasing rates of infertility and higher average rates of maternal age, people are turning to assisted reproductive technologies (ART) like in vitro fertilization (IVF) more than ever. More than 8 million babies have been born since the first IVF pregnancy in 1978. Recognizing the emotional agony of dealing with trouble conceiving, it makes sense why IVF is becoming so widely used. IVF provides a glimmer of hope for couples who have faced numerous cycles of negative pregnancy tests. But recently, some light has been shed on less positive aspects of the ART industry, revealing inflated success rates, maternal and fetal health risks, and high-profit margins.
Overinflated Rates of Success
While couples trying to conceive with IVF are hoping for the birth of a healthy baby, and many fertility clinics advertise positive success rates, the fact is that most couples using IVF will not experience a live birth. According to the CDC’s latest data on IVF, only about a quarter of those who attempt IVF experience pregnancy, and even fewer lead to a live birth. To quote the CDC report, “about 27% of cycles using fresh embryos from fresh nondonor eggs that were started in 2016 resulted in clinical pregnancy… approximately 81% of the pregnancies resulting from ART cycles using fresh embryos from fresh nondonor eggs in 2016 produced a live birth… [and] about 18% of pregnancies resulted in miscarriage, stillbirth, induced abortion, or maternal death prior to birth.”
(Excerpt) Read more at naturalwomanhood.org ...
Perhaps not everyone is supposed to have kids...
No one gets everything they want. We all have to live with things we can’t have and want, as well as things we have we don’t want.
Plenty of fine kids to be adopted for those wanting kids.
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Could provide financial subsidy to women planning abortion as a way of encouraging adoption. Should be a first question to prospective abortion candidates. Give the IVF money to pregnant women instead.
No, that just encourages women to make getting pregnant into nothing more than a paycheck.
Our society has enough problems.
“After a time, you may find that ‘having’ is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as ‘wanting.’ It is not logical, but it is often true.”— Mr. Spock, Star Trek
Infertility is just another medical condition like any other. There’s a treatment for it. What is so special that people shouldn’t persue a treatment?
And, yes, I’m an IVF mother.
Choosing to not have kids until you are thirty or so is choosing not to have kids much of the time.
Not rocket science. More like intellectually grasping how to make tea.
They generally made a choice and the consequences of each path in life have always been pretty clear.
No do do overs. Sometimes you get lucky and stumble into a fabulous career after your kids are independent. Sometimes you get pregnant at 40. But no guarantees.
You know there's at least one out there.
Multiple reported cases
How COULD a woman who’s been through IVF abort her baby?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1284831/How-COULD-woman-whos-IVF-abort-baby.html
Dozens of IVF babies aborted ‘after women change their minds about becoming a mother’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1284384/IVF-babies-aborted-women-change-minds.html
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