My concern would indeed be funding.
But then, I object to people begging (ala, a professional website with a donate button). Maybe I'm a hypocrite.
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Bats, Thu 12 Feb 2009, 12:12,
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Hmmm.
But then that raises an uncomfortable question - would you allow IVF to someone to have one child if you thought money was an issue? If not, that seems to imply that it's not the number that counts, so much as poor people breeding. And if that's the case, then the same would presumably apply to the naturally-reproducing as well. And that seems a bit itchy.
The point stands, too, that the kids are still overwhelmingly likely to have a life worth living, so they aren't going to be better off never having been born either way.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 12 Feb 2009, 12:16,
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In the end, it's a personal decision.
I wouldn't inflict my judgment on someone else who wanted a child. It wasn't the woman's idea to have eight; it happened. If a woman is able to go through the pain and the expense of IVF for her child(ren) then that's her prerogative, not mine.
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Bats, Thu 12 Feb 2009, 12:20,
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