Posted on 07/14/2013 11:37:22 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Certain forms of IVF treatment are significantly associated with an increased risk of low intelligence in children, a major study has shown.
A link was also found with an especially severe type of autism, but only in the case of twins or triplets.
Scientists who analyzed data on more than 2.5 million births stressed that the chances of an IVF baby being affected remained tiny in real terms. …
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldsun.com.au ...
IVF is often resorted to by older women. Older women also have higher birth defects when conception is ‘natural’.
Next order of super lawsuits. The idiocy continues, and the general public wonders why the cost of health care escalates.
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I am not surprised. I have read other articles indicating higher risks to health of the babies thus conceived, including blindness. It is NOT wise to trick Mother Nature, as she works for God. He's already devised the means to create babies.. And note this:
Scientists who analysed data on more than 2.5 million births stressed that the chances of an IVF baby being affected remained tiny in real terms.
They found a 51 per cent increased risk of intellectual impairment, marked by an IQ below 70, in children conceived by IVF treatments in which sperm cells are injected directly into eggs.
Tiny in "real" terms? Fifty one percent? They're really reaching to make it sound like hardly any risk at all!
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