Infertility, should the goverenment get involved.
By meandmy3
@meandmy3 (2227)
United States
April 21, 2009 6:43pm CST
With the news of moms having more children than their bodies were intended to have should our government get involved in implementing laws and guidelines to ensure this does not happen in the future.
I have to admit I have mixed feelings regarding infertility treatments and then there is the whole if it is my body and I can chose to have an abortion then I should be able to chose to do treatments and what those treatments will be. If the gov can not get involved with my uterus in one case they should not be allowed to be involved in the other.
I do think that if we were to pass a law that would guarantee that insurance would cover infertility treatments in the case that they are being given for medical necessity (no gay or single women get them, if they can get pregnant without medical intervention then it is not medically necessary) we would see a decline in the number of High Order multiples in the states.
Infertility is a disease, it has been recognized as one by the CDC I think that if there is medical reason you can not get pregnant that insurance should cover the treatments. Thank goodness when I was undergoing treatments I lived in one of the 11 states that mandates that insurance pay for treatments, they also mandate the guidelines for said treatments. (how many embryos can be transferred, how long you have to be ttc before you start treatments and what is considered medically necessary)
I do not think that women should be having 8 babies at one time, I however have very mixed feelings on what we can and should do to prevent this from happening.
2 responses
@mummymo (23706)
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27 Apr 09
I too have had to undergo fertility treatment but it was funded here in the Uk by the NHS so the government is involved - there are also guidelines and laws in place governing fertility treatment here. I too have mixed feelings in many ways but I DO think that if the medical profession cannot police themselves then laws must be put in place to a certain extent. I also don;t agree that gay women and single women should not receive treatment - i think each case is different and should be evaluated on an individual basis! xxx
Thank you! I feel very strongly on this issue as between fertility treatment and the power of prayer came my little beauty! She is 7 now and drives us to distraction but isn't that just how it is supposed to be? lol xxx
@maximax8 (31042)
• United Kingdom
22 Apr 09
It must be upsetting for a lady to try to get pregnant for ten years and then still not achieve pregnancy. I know a lady that did that, got fertility treatment and had triplet boys. I think that that was reasonable and I am pleased she got her wish to become a caring parent. Fertility treatment is expensive and so I imagine the ladies want to have the best chance possible. That is why so many embryos are put in. Yet a lady can get an abortion on the National Health Service free of charge. I don't agree with abortion. I think eight babies are too many to care for especially for a single mother. I know that a lady attempting pregnancy but failing can get stressed so I don't think there should be a time scale. A lady of 24 years old could happily wait but a lady of 38 years might be desperate to have a baby. I think adopting is great and I would like to see that system getting easier and more popular. Nature is a strange thing and when people play about with it strange events can happen. In a natural pregnancy some ladies have a single baby or twins but with fertility treatment multiples are possible and so the amount should be reasonable I think like three or four as a maximum unless a lady requests more.
