Should the NHS fund IVF?
- Created by: Amy Coulson
- Created on: 07-10-13 17:45
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- Should the NHS fund IVF?
- No
- NHS is already financially overstretched
- Should treat those people that are already alive rather than creating new lives that will need to be cared for
- Low success rate: 32.2% under 35 years, 27.7% 35-37 years, 20.8% 38-39 years, 13.6% 40-42 years, 5% 43-44 years and 1.9% 44+ years
- Not essential or life saving treatment
- Multiple births are more likely and these are more costly for the NHS to cater for
- NHS is already financially overstretched
- Yes
- Human Rights Act - Article 8 - Right to a family life
- Private IVF could create a two tier system between those that can afford it and those that cannot
- Eugenics
- Children are psychologically important to couples
- NHS facilitates other societal norms e.g. plastic surgery on disfigured body parts
- Gay and lesbian people may not have another way to become parents are may not be able to afford IVF privately
- No
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