How do you feel about a lottery where the prize isn't money, but paid services like in vitro, surrogacy, etc.? If you won such a lottery, would you tell the resulting child about it? If you were unable to conceive with your partner, would you buy a ticket?

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Should older, post-menopausal* women use fertility treatments to have babies? How old is too old? Was Maria del Carmen Bousada wrong to get pregnant with IVF and donor eggs at 66? Was the doctor wrong to help her ( Read more... )

Should the father of the 14 children by Nadya Suleman be forced to pay child support ( Read more... )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090206/ap_on_re_us/octupletsRead more... )

If a woman is pregnant with high-order multiples due to fertility treatment, should she abort some of the babies so that she can breastfeed more easily?

Say your single daughter in her early twenties wants a kid but couldn't conceive one without help even if she had a partner. Would you support her getting in vitro fertilization using donor sperm ( Read more... )

Should there be laws in place to prevent women with large families from having more children? I think having six kids and wanting 8 more is a sign of mental illness and I don't think modern medicine should be aiding her. What do you think ( Read more... )

Would you undergo fertility treatments if you already had 6 children?

Do you think a doctor should be allowed to refuse fertility treatments for any reason?

I have heard/seen a lot of comments, both IRL and on the internetz, deriding people who have fertility treatments such as IVF instead of adopting. A quick google turned up a few examples of peoples' arguments, such as this page. Note that the argument is not that people should stop having babies as long as there are children in need of families. ( Read more... )

If a family already had a set of higher order multiples due to fertility drugs (or not- it can happen naturally), but wanted to go back on them and get preggers again, would you think they were crazy? I would, and do ( Read more... )