Wired: Infertility Treatments Suck
In their latest issue, Wired reveals the dirty little secret of the fertility-industrial complex: infertility treatments suck. Or, at least, they don’t work most of the time. Sad but true: spend thousands of dollars, inject yourself with a ton of hormones, punch a needle through your vaginal wall — your chances of getting knocked up are still less than twenty percent.
Now, we can sorta understand the appeal of going through the pregnancy process and getting a baby that’s genetically related to you. But with odds — and expenses — like these, we have a hard time understanding why more people don’t choose adoption.
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Probably because adoption is also expensive - sometimes more so than infertility treatments (depending on how many treatments you go through and where you adopt from). Also, adoption isn’t always a guarantee either and the wait can be really long.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:18 pmI’m sorry to say…but I’m a woman going through infertility treatments in the hopes of becoming a mother. I don’t think you can put a price tag on conceiving and giving birth to your own baby. Adoption, like fertility treatments, is expensive. Do you honestly think your being sensitive to the woman out there that are trying desperating to have their own baby?
January 27th, 2008 at 12:31 pmI understand your point, Lux. However, as Heather stated, not every woman undergoes fertility treatment just because she is averse to raising any child that isn’t biologically hers. Adoption is often very difficult. It simply isn’t a viable option for many couples. It’s very expensive, you have to endure a tough vetting process, and there is no guarantee that they will even have a child available for you to adopt.
January 28th, 2008 at 9:15 pmThanks for the insight on adoption vs. infertility treatments. For the record, the point of this post wasn’t to attack anyone’s personal choices, but rather to point out how terrible it is that infertility treatments manage to be both incredibly expensive and incredibly ineffective. As a friend pointed out, if any other product had a similarly high failure rate, the company behind it would be out of business.
Of course, as this is a medical procedure, our expectations are different — but it is a bit shocking that this is the best we can do.
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