Should there be legislation limiting the number of embryos a woman can receive?

22 Comments

  • allison - 11 years ago

    Regardless of what some women may have done in the past, if a women is granted the right to abort a life she should also be given the right no matter what to begin a life or as many lives as she chooses. It should not be anyone's business but hers.

  • Angela - 12 years ago

    I think that if the man and woman want a baby or another baby it is their right no one limits dead beat moms teen moms or the hoochie mom that doesnt know who the daddy is. So why should a responsible couple willing to undergo treatment to bring their baby in te world be held back? Adoption is basicly impossible now a days for an average family and is nowhere the same as having yor own child with the one you love. I say give the responsible people the chance to conceive as many children as they would like. If they only have the cash for one time they should have the right to say how many is planted. It is their body their responsibility and their decision. You must admit if a paying customer wants 2 children as twins and is ready for the babies mind and hear and financially who is to say that is wrong? When a one night stand can do more damage to people that care nothing for each other or their unborn child they just made cause they are drunk or high or just young and dumb. I think the government shouldn't have any say over invitro. If te can't do anything to stop unwed people from having flings and children who the crap are the to tell a loving couple not to have a baby?

  • Anonymous - 12 years ago

    One word; Octomom

  • Aj - 12 years ago

    I personally think that the couple should be able to obtain embryos as needed if they have fertility problems. But the guidlines should be enforced.
    Only if the couple has had major fertility problems and both are emiotionally, financially and physically ready for what they are about to endure.
    They're should also be a screening/background checks to make sure they have never had any problems with drugs, alcohol, or the law.

  • Kate JohnsTon - 12 years ago

    I don't think legislating medical care is a good idea at all. What I think should be the guidance process would be to establish best practices for fertility centers that would prioritize the health and safety of embryos such that multiple embryo transfers would be minimized.

  • Lacie - 12 years ago

    This is such a sticky subject. I think there's no way to satisfy every belief here, but since we all have our own opinion I'll share mine.

    I think there should be a limit based on the woman/couple finacial ability to support the child(ren) that may be concieved. If the woman/couple can only afford to care for one baby, but they decided to have 3 embryos implanted and carry all of them to term, then who is going to help them support the other two? (If they have one embryo implanted that developes into twins or triplets, that is different.)

    Chances are they will get some help from family and friends, but they may get on state/federal aid(our taxes). If that's the case then the federal/state government(through our taxes), who would end up helping them out should be able to have a say in how many embryos can be implanted. I have no issues with my taxes being used for assistance programs to support families, but I think it is wrong for a doctor or patient to knowingly implant more embryos than a woman/couple can take care of.

    There should be laws in place to protect the choice of the family on how many embryos can be implanted but there also need to be measures in place to prevent another Octomom.

  • Oblivious - 12 years ago

    Wow!! People shouldn't vote if they have not clue what they are talking about. The law doesn't limit how many times a woman can receive embryos it limits the amount of embryos that can be implanted at one time. It's to prevent OCTYMOMS. Some Doctors proved not to be responsible enough to follow ethical standards. Thus laws had to be made.

  • red - 12 years ago

    THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO BUISNESS TELLING ANYONE WHAT THEY CAN OR CANT HAVE DONE TO THEIR BODIES. PERIOD. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AS A PERSON ELECTING TO HAVE THIS DONE TO KNOW WHAT ALL THE POSSIBLE OUTCOMES ARE AND THERE FORE BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM.

  • mel - 13 years ago

    in life things should be done with intention to tranform suituation into a better state, ivf has brought lots of smile to couples. However if done with intention to produce out of greed then the parents shall take the grief on the long run

  • chinnetha - 13 years ago

    i am a woman that have been try to have a baby for17 year i had a son that lived for 1hour and if i could afford to do ivf a forth time i will take a all the babys I can get my heart will never heal until I have a nother baby

  • Danielle Atterberry - 13 years ago

    All i can say is: OCTOMOM! AHHHHH!

  • Charlotte Woman - 14 years ago

    Jesyca I agree with you on this one 100%; Gordon I thought the same thing. I decided to respond to the question as if they meant per implantation...with this in mind the health/risk involved for the patient should always be first and foremost; that being said it lies on the healthcare provider to do what is safe and ethical.

  • mona2010 - 14 years ago

    People shouldnt turn ivf into a fun activity..if God meant for u to have children, u d have them, ok.u can take help from science, but dont abuse it creating quintuplets and octuplets..That is so artificial!!!!!

    These are the words from my heart, that said, i still dont want to sit in judgement upon anyone, and as far as how many embryos get implanted , thats none of my business. Doctors should sit together, consider all risks, benefits, statistics of pgncy complications/stillbirth/miscarriages etc from too much embryo transfer and then come up with a conclusion.

  • Laura - 14 years ago

    I believe that if a family can afford to have however many kids then they should be able to decide how many they actually have it shouldn't be upto the government to decide this or anybody else well except for maybe the doctor but only as a medical input for the matter of the fact.

  • tangwystl - 14 years ago

    I think both parties need to be responsible for creation of embryos, implantation, and unimplanted embryos. The doctors should have a code of ethics, on their part, that prevents them from implanting(and patients from demanding) more embryos than is healthy for a woman to carry.Or, have a multitude of multiple pregnancies. There will always be the potential for twins to be created from one embryo. The recipients also have a responsibility to not have more embryos-and potential children-implanted than they can afford to support. If more embryos are created than will ever be used(do you really want to have 20 children?), serious thought needs to go into the donation or destruction of said embryos. We are in an age when " I want " seems to take precident over common sense. Not so long ago, large families were the norm, but,let's be honest, women had no say. Religion or the men they were with,dictated that there was no birth control and your job was to make babies, clean house and take care of the man. The cold,harsh reality is, if it was God's will for you to have a baby, you wouldn't need science to get there. The fact is, if you use science, you need to use it responsibly. I also don't agree with "fertile" women having more children than they can afford and living off the state. P.S. I am a woman that needs surgery to stay pregnant. I have one son(9 years old)and am currently attempting to have my last child.

  • Gordon - 14 years ago

    This is a very poorly worded question indeed. Does it mean "Should there be a lifetime cap on the number of eggs banked/donated/implanted," or "Should there be a limit on the number of eggs that can be implanted at one time?" I would answer no to all possible interpretations of the former, and yes to the latter, with the caveat that I do not know whether there is any plausible reason it might be medically necessary to implant several at once rather than a few at a time until it works. With the amount clinics charge for this stuff, multiple implantation sessions (where necessary) ought to be included in the price, within reason of course.

  • Suzanne - 14 years ago

    This is a poorly worded question. What do you mean by receive? Do you mean transfer to the uterus? Or receive embryos for storage?

  • Jesyca marcial - 14 years ago

    I think in life we worry to much about what everyone else is doing and love to find mistakes in other people's actions. I believe if you are mentally capable of making and handling a big family then go on and do it. Life is to short not to find a purpose if someone's purpose is a big family let them do that. Look at the duggars family God bless them and all those out there that are not lucky in enough to have there own show or get positive attention like they get.

  • joanna - 14 years ago

    it is not fair to limit people to a number. if the procedure fails, whos right is it to limit how many times an individual can try to become pregnant?? no one in there right mind would tell a woman capable of bearing childeren that she has four and thats enough!!! am i wrong??? so why can they target people that don't have that abillaty?

  • sue - 15 years ago

    Well i don't have any children cause i can't have any i wish i could but i need to have invitro to be able to have a child but i can't afford the test i wish there someway people like me could afford it.

  • toria - 15 years ago

    I don't think it's right to knowingly implant more than 3 embryo's but if they do put more than that in than they should make sure they are single birth NOT twins i think it a crime to have more kids than you can support on your own i am a mother of two and i would love to have a little girl but if i have an insemination it would only be one egg and if it turns into 2 or 3 babys than thats on us not them so to all the DOCTORS out there putting 4-5 embryo's into any women knowing that theres a chance that she may carry all to term i think its bull crud because if you would just lower the price a few thousand dollars and stop being greedy you might have a lot more patients and not have to worry about how happy one soon to be mom will be i mean we are glade that you do what you do but help more than the wealthy i might be poor but i know that i could give any child a wonderful home.like i said i have two beautiful baby boys that are 12 months apart but im ready for a little girl.

  • Tedqi - 15 years ago

    The doctor doing the procedure should use good judgement . To legislate medical procedures is NOT the way to get good doctors to do their profession ethically and competently.

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