Posted on 11/22/2023 8:40:07 PM PST by Morgana
A lesbian couple seeking to become parents have spoken out about the cost involved with IVF, saying that they have spent over $30,000 since 2020 trying to get pregnant.
In an interview with Australia’s 9Honey, Steph and Kayla said in 2020, just one year after they began dating, they knew they wanted to start a family. “We looked into it pretty quickly after getting together, because Kayla didn’t want to be 30 and still trying for a child,” Steph said.
Among both gay and straight couples, IVF has become incredibly popular in Australia; according to 9Honey, one in every 18 babies is conceived through IVF. Steph, however, said they weren’t prepared for the astronomical costs involved. “We drained our bank accounts pretty quickly, then our weekly wages. We would pay our important bills like rent, then everything else would go into IVF,” she said.
So far, they have gone through 15 rounds of IVF, every one of which has failed. This likely resulted in the deaths of far more than 15 preborn children, as most IVF cycles create more than one embryo.
“In the last few months, we’ve had to have that conversation like, ‘At what point do we stop? At what point do we just say it’s OK for us to not have a family?'” Steph said. “The question is still unanswered. We don’t know at what point we’re going to stop, but we know that it’s not going to be too far down the road. We’re not going to go through this for another three years.”
One of the problems with IVF is that it involves the purposeful creation of embryos, which are — despite their tiny size — human beings. And those human beings are routinely destroyed, because they aren’t “high quality” embryos, or because they might have a genetic abnormality like Down syndrome, or even because an IVF round failed. Yet this couple’s only regret seems to be monetary cost, not the lives lost.
“If we could have seen into the future and seen how much money we would have poured into it, we probably would have gone down a different avenue,” Steph said. “We probably could have adopted a child from overseas and the amount of money we spent on IVF, and we would have been just as happy doing so.”
Adoption can be expensive; however, in this couple’s home country of Australia, it is significantly less expensive than IVF. A child can be adopted without untold numbers of their brothers and sisters being killed along the way, and a child ideally deserves a mother and a father. Yet societally, children have been turned into not a privilege, a life with whom adults are entrusted, but a right that people deserve to obtain by any means. Rather than being acknowledged as human beings with their own rights and value, children have been turned into products to be engineered, created, and even disposed of at will.
Though the desire to become parents is often quite strong, children are not possessions to be bought or created at will, at times deliberately depriving them of the knowledge and presence of a biological parent.
According to traditional Christian views, beginning at conception, the embryo has moral status as a human being, and thus most assisted reproductive technologies are forbidden.
You know this, I know this.
Those living in sin are clueless.
“saying that they have spent over $30,000 since 2020 trying to get pregnant.”
Without seeing their pictures, I can’t say how much I would charge.
So are they saying they got screwed, or are they saying they should’ve gotten screwed?....
If being same sex attracted is “hard wired” then how is it possible they could want a child? As a fashion accessory?
“So are they saying they got screwed, or are they saying they should’ve gotten screwed?....”
1-800-CALL-LAZ
“Without seeing their pictures, I can’t say how much I would charge.”
Their image may be seen here.
how about a warning next time! good grief!!!!
Not funny. I've been around a lesbian couple who had a baby, and fashion accessory exactly describes what it was. By the time the poor boy was about three, they'd gotten tired of it, separated, and both moved away. God only knows what happened to the kid.
IVF is just inherently not that reliable.
I’ve heard of people who spent a quarter of a million (8 or 9 tries) before they got pregnant, and if that person gave up after 7 tries they would have spent 200K for nothing.
People usually only talk about it when they succeed and never talk about it when they fail, so it creates the impression that IVF is a straight forward procedure and a lot of career minded women think in the back of their mind, that they always can go IVF as a backup plan. They are in for a big surprise.
I don’t think TPT was trying to be funny.
In fact I thought he was as serious as a heart attack.
We have all read the horror stories here about what lesbian parents have done to their kids.
This is just so freakin' stupid.
Wait until you're ovulating, find a horny guy, and let him have sex with you.
IT'S NOT COMPLICATED!!!
Ummm. Have you seen the two potential candidates here?
Speaking as the owner of a penis ...
Your premise cannot be fully tested without at least seeing honest pictures of these two women.
They're dykes ... massive shrinkage is within the realm of possibility.
No.
NO!!!
HELL NO!!!!
And where did women get the idea that those claw-type bogo-nails are attractive?
Bang a black guy. That usually works the first time out of the gate.
I don't need to.
I'm a red-blooded American male.
I'll f**k a pumpkin with a hole in it.
While I agree with you in principle, I often ask what happens when a zygote (a fertilized ovum) is flushed from a woman's body (without her even knowing) before it matures into an embryo and attaches to the woman's womb? Is that death? Is that abortion? Is that murder?
It's a thought exercise: When we say "beginning at conception," should that literally mean when the ovum and sperm meet in the fallopian tube or should it mean that "life begins at implantation" after it travels to the uterus where the baby actually starts nurturing through the mother? This process could take up to a week to complete.
-PJ
Especially post hetero divorce where the actually bio mom goes lesbo and intentionally alienates the child(ren) from their father under the misandry of “toxic masculinity.”
These are the chicks that are all in on transgendering their children...especially boy to girl.
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