I saw this yesterday in the paper. Sounds like at least some doctors (not the Mad Monk) have their heads on straight.

It makes me cross when people who have abused their bodies their whole lives can get organ transplants and ongoing hospital treatment when they need it and nobody says a word. But because this is about reproduction, it's a real hot potato and something on which everyone seems to have an opinion. Also nobody ever mentions how much IVF patients pay in the way of out of pocket costs so they more than fairly contribute to the cost of their treatment.

What's interesting in this whole debate is how it's put back squarely in the lap of the woman. There are very few articles that talk about involuntary childlessness ... the situation where a woman would dearly love to have children but cannot because she hasn't met a partner or there are other circumstances preventing it. It's all very well to say we should have children when we're young but sometimes that just isn't possible.

Oh yes a friend told me about the Amazonian herb woman. Apparently it was donor eggs.