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Should Infertility Treatments Be Covered By Insurance?

More and more infertile couples are turning to medical intervention to treat infertility. The most popular is in-vitro fertilization, although some medical procedures such as the surgical clearing of blocked fallopian tubes are also done. With the rising cost of medical insurance and increasing world population does it make sense for infertility treatments to be [...]

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How to Make IVF Affordable in the US

by Abbie Waters in Infertility News

Iva Skoch’s new Newsweek article on the high cost of IVF in the United States makes some really great points. One point that bears repeating is that that the cost of IVF in the U.S. won’t be affordable by the masses until we can find a way to create more reproductive endocrinologists and other fertility [...]

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In His Quest to Stigmatize Gays, FRC’s Tony Perkins Stigmatizes the Infertile

by Abbie Waters in Infertility News

In his weekly column, Tony Perkins, the president of the vehemently anti-gay conservative Christian group the Family Research Council, reacted to CNN’s documentary “Gary and Tony Have a Baby”. Perkins described the gay couple who have a child using egg donation and surrogacy this way: CNN gave homosexual activists the gift of a free hour-long [...]

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Females Selling Human Eggs for Cash Stirs Controversy

by Abbie Waters in Infertility News

The debate over how much money to pay female egg donors is hardly new. Many newspapers and magazines have already written about the question of women selling their eggs, including the New York Times, USA Today, and the Boston Globe but it’s informative to have a debate about the question of how much human eggs [...]

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Even After Health Care Reform, Insurance Companies Don’t Have to Cover Infertility

by Abbie Waters in Infertility News

A while back I asked if infertility treatments would be covered under the new health care reform bill. We now have an answer, and it’s a not good one if you’re infertile. According to Susan Donaldson James at ABC News, there is nothing in the new health reform care bill that mandates insurance companies cover [...]

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Will Infertility Treatments Be Included in Health Care Reform?

by Abbie Waters in Infertility News

Update after health care reform passed: Even After Health Care Reform, Insurance Companies Don’t Have to Cover Infertility It depends, according to this report by Sabrina Eaton in The Cleveland Plain Dealer. During the election campaign, President Obama told Planned Parenthood that he supported expanding “reproductive services” and including them in his proposed reforms to [...]

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