I’m sorry, but I can’t
get excited about what Andrew Murray of Fertility Associates Wellington sees as
a need for more ‘compensation’ here for egg donors for women in their 40s trying
to conceive. Quite apart from the highly questionable ethics of surrogacy,
they’ve made their bed and can lie on it, like all the women who forgo a career
to have babies in their 20s and live with the
consequences.
Murray’s exercised
about driving couples offshore with associated ‘risks for families to the
health and wellbeing of mother and baby and the large financial investment’. (Not to mention loss of customers onshore.) What about men aged 70+ being accepted for hugely expensive IVF treatment?
Should he not be exercised about consequent multiple pregnancies - which he
acknowledges as frequently having expensive complications - a mother’s
life-threatening illnesses, the grief of deaths in utero and in at least
one case, resulting poverty and stress culminating in the removal of surviving
children by the supposedly benevolent offices of Child, Youth and Family?
Dr Murray is entitled
of course, to make a living. But how much of a living, and at what cost to
others?
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