Doctors Predict Sex "Unnecessary" in 10 Years for Baby-Having
By Jen Doll, Tuesday, May. 18 2010 @ 10:33AM
Sometimes we love our scientists, like when they tell us that it's okay to hate our exes or that wine is good for us.And sometimes we can barely constrain ourselves from punching them in the face ... which was the case today when we read in the Daily News that two of them are saying in-vitro fertilization will make sex "unnecessary within a decade" for procreative purposes.
Don't get us wrong, this is not because we are all gung-ho about having sex "the natural way" to make babies, necessarily, nor do we hate in-vitro implicitly.
It's because this diagnosis, if you want to call it that, completely ignores the fact that IVF actually costs a lot of money -- $12,000 to $15,000 for one cycle, meaning it's cost-prohibitive for a lot of people -- and involves a huge amount of work, including regular hormone injections and doctor visits and the physical and emotional trauma that ensues, not to mention the feeling of abysmal failure when it doesn't succeed and you've spent all this time and money ... but up and at 'em, on to the next round!
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By Jen Doll, Tuesday, May. 18 2010 @ 10:33AM
Sometimes we love our scientists, like when they tell us that it's okay to hate our exes or that wine is good for us.And sometimes we can barely constrain ourselves from punching them in the face ... which was the case today when we read in the Daily News that two of them are saying in-vitro fertilization will make sex "unnecessary within a decade" for procreative purposes.
Don't get us wrong, this is not because we are all gung-ho about having sex "the natural way" to make babies, necessarily, nor do we hate in-vitro implicitly.
It's because this diagnosis, if you want to call it that, completely ignores the fact that IVF actually costs a lot of money -- $12,000 to $15,000 for one cycle, meaning it's cost-prohibitive for a lot of people -- and involves a huge amount of work, including regular hormone injections and doctor visits and the physical and emotional trauma that ensues, not to mention the feeling of abysmal failure when it doesn't succeed and you've spent all this time and money ... but up and at 'em, on to the next round!
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