Why the media hate assisted motherhood | Dea Birkett

tabloid stories attacking women seeking IVF are just a cover for intolerance against unconventional families

What is the cost of the design? If you choose a lucky number, only 20 pounds. Fertility first lottery in England, with £ 20 tickets to give prospective parents the chance to win £ 25,000 worth of fertility treatments, the charity launched Hatch A. The tabloids take the moral high ground, citing critics who condemn the bet as "humiliating to the nature of human reproduction."

But what is humiliating is that desperate measures people with fertility problems should take to become a parent. When the story broke, the number of visits on the website of Hatch, the organization behind the "Make a baby" of the game, did fail.

The hate media motherhood assisted. Women who just want a little help to have a baby are portrayed as unnatural, evil, selfish, frankly. Earlier this week, the Daily Mail headlined by two women who had IVF treatment, one, a Nigerian - who were "milking the NHS." In the next column, it was revealed that Kate Middleton joy, the hope of having a baby. Paradoxically, the rise has cost millions of true. But it's a bill we seem willing to pay.

• When the budget is prepared for reproduction, assisted reproduction is still that emerged as the most durable. As the costs of health care are cut, health authorities are providing less free cycles, while others impose more restrictions on who is entitled to receive them. Infertile women are not considered worthy of public money. Even organizations of multiple births, the distinction between the deserving and undeserving relatives. An e-mail asking if anyone can donate a triple stroller for a new mom of three "conceived naturally", implying that he was worthy of charity. If I had IVF triplets, it would be to because of him.
• However, the price of IVF is a pittance in the public account total to raise a child. It costs the state an average of £ 126 000 for raising a child alone. If testing reveals the fetus during pregnancy has half a heart rightly the NHS uses its resources to try to make the baby more. The cost of an IVF cycle is negligible in comparison, about 5000 pounds - a small percentage of the price of the label TMI
The anti-FIV preachers, "sums simply do not add up. For this group of low-pressure nature that ignores the broader economic factors. By definition, an IVF baby desperately wanted. A baby conceived after carefully planning a petri dish may be less likely to do so in the social welfare of an accident caused by chance. So if cost is a primary consideration, all babies should be brought to life through the stands of assisted reproduction -. IVF (in vitro fertilization), ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) and PGD (preimplantation genetic diagnosis) them this way, the global attraction for the public purse would be reduced considerably

This is perhaps the dream of eugenics. It's not mine. However accusing the parents aided design cost too much and are denied the support of the NHS, will decide who is able to have a family. Tell yourself that if you are under 39 years old, married and fertile, it is perfectly acceptable for you to have your Chloe and Jack, even though they are twins. But if you're a little older, single and have a condition which makes the design challenging, so you should not have children.

economic fallacy against IVF is a screen behind which those who oppose foreign families can easily hide. What the critics aided design really does not like women are grumpy, middle-aged individual to have babies. Like me.