[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Wow. This thread sure brought out the hysterics. The venom is WAY out of proportion to the issue.

THE BLUE LAGOON star and her SPIN CITY writer spouse turned to IVF in late 2001, following six months of trying for a baby without success.

While I don't know how many babies were created/frozen/or destroyed, six months is an incredibly brief amount of time to try naturally before turning to IVF. Usually doctors wait a year.

[Rubber_Duckie_27]

Although 6 months was a short period of time to turn to IVF, I know of some doctors who will begin the advanced reproductive technologies at 6 months if the woman's cycle is well-established and tracked, and if she is approaching her 40's. Why wait a year if it's obvious (for example) that a woman isn't ovulating, or if there's male factor infertility?

As for the original article, there are couples who "donate" fertilized embryos to other couples who cannot even do IVF but where the woman wishes to become pregnant. It's an interesting alternative, but if it came down to needing IVF to concieve, I personally would resort to infant adoption.

[NYer]

This thread sure brought out the hysterics. The venom is WAY out of proportion to the issue.

“Though it is true that sometimes it is lawful to tolerate a lesser moral evil in order to avoid a greater evil or in order to promote a greater good," it is never lawful, even for the gravest reasons, to do evil that good may come of it (18)—in other words, to intend directly something which of its very nature contradicts the moral order, and which must therefore be judged unworthy of man, even though the intention is to protect or promote the welfare of an individual, of a family or of society in general.”
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