Is fertility treatment selfish - an interesting response..

I’ve just been reading a really interesting piece written by a mother of twins who expores very honestly the self-consciousness she sometimes feels about her children who were conceived using IUI. She tells how people feel no qualms about asking whether her children were conceived naturally and what an invasion of privacy this can seem.

She also addresses the criticism so often thrown at people who can’t conceive naturally that using fertility treatment is somehow “selfish” and that adopting would be a more socially responsible way to deal with the problem. The wild comments under any story about fertility treatment often imply that couples with fertility problems simply don’t think about this and that we are wound up in some feverish consumerism which makes us believe we have the right to anything we want. In fact, this couldn’t be further from the truth and couples going through fertility treatment tend to think a lot about their desire for a child and what it means, as this article so clearly explains…