Sunday, June 1, 2008

GIRLS ?????????????

At an age when most women are settling down on their nest egg and knitting themselves a second house in Bournemouth, one woman and her partner headed to India to start a family.
A 59-year-old woman and her 72-year-old partner travelled to India for fertility treatment, being too old to qualify in the UK, the Times has reported. The two were born in India but are British citizens and live in Birmingham. (Initial reports in the Sun said the two had abandoned their newborn twin daughters because they weren't boys, which has been vigorously denied by the NHS.)
This story really highlights is the vast difference in fertility services people can get in different countries. Prospective patients can shop for services on websites such as this one, in countries across Europe, yet shouldn't finding an IVF provider be different from tracking down an affordable facelift surgeon?
What investment does a doctor or fertility team in the ultimately well-being of the client and offspring when they fly in and fly out from distant lands? Are doctors really so in love with scientific advances that they believe providing IVF to a 58-year-old and her 72-year-old partner is in the best interests of the couple and the children produced alike

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