IVF for older women

[ShyGuyInChicago]

What should the age limit be? Do you feel that allowing IVF for older women is fair on the child? What about the health risk of being pregnant at an older age?

[Jess]

wait, quick question. What is IVF?

[ShyGuyInChicago]

wait, quick question. What is IVF?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_fertilisation

In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process by which egg cells are fertilised by sperm outside the body, in vitro. IVF is a major treatment in infertility when other methods of assisted reproductive technology have failed. The process involves hormonally controlling the ovulatory process, removing ova (eggs) from the woman's ovaries and letting sperm fertilise them in a fluid medium. The fertilised egg (zygote) is then transferred to the patient's uterus with the intent to establish a successful pregnancy. The first successful birth of a "test tube baby", Louise Brown, occurred in 1978. Robert G. Edwards, the doctor who developed the treatment, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2010. Before that, there was a transient biochemical pregnancy reported by Australian Foxton School researchers in 1973 and an ectopic pregnancy reported by Steptoe and Edwards in 1976.