[buliej]

BW - we must have posted at the same time. I have called my clinic but the person who is on top of this issue is out today - so I'll have to wait.

S'rose - I think what you describe is a very unique situation and actually not what this is meant - in theory - to address (I don't even see how this requirement would reveal the situation you describe). I would hope that the situation you describe would become apparent during the mandatory counseling session (and with a good counselor, I think they would begin to sense something and request to speak to the parties independently).

I think this requirement is highly objectionable. To me, if they require this, then before they let ANY person who delivers a baby leave the hospital (or otherwise go home with their baby), they should require a police check and child protection check - there is no real difference. In fact, the true equivalent would be requiring OBs & GPs to require their patients to obtain these records as soon as a pregnancy is confirmed. Just because one needs help getting pregnant, doesn't mean that they should have to undergo some higher scrutiny. I don't even see how they could argue costs/money - as it costs no less for the state to intervene where necessary when a non-IVF baby is involved than when an IVF baby is involved - and the government provides the same medical coverage for pregnancy-related medical care to mothers of non-IVF babies and IVF babies. AND this is a State requirement - but it's not the State that funds IVF treatments but the federal government!