38-year-old foid desperately wants to become a single mother, demands government-funded IVF treatment

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/17jpnzh/fertility_inequality_how_single_women_are_facing

Definitely what the UK needs right now, more single mothers.

She was 38 as well ffs. When will women stop eating up the lie that they can have it all?

State-funded broodmares NOW:

What about single men? Is the expectation that the NHS is responsible for supplying a surrogate?

The same as the men who haven't found a reliable partner can'f get a child of their own. Should NHS provide a surrogate mother for those men?

the NHS doesn't have a supply of women who are willing to put their lives at risk in order to be used as incubators.

It's about funding the nhs should fund it

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TabbySpookremancy Thy/Thou 11mo ago #5277947

This is dumb. The only point they may have is that requiring six to twelve rounds of IUI to prove infertility is probably excessive; three is usually the amount clinics recommend in the US as being statistically useful to try (ie if you don't conceive after three stats show more rounds probably aren't worth it).

Any women without proven infertility that wants to skip that and go straight to something as medically intensive as IVF is an idiot though. And frankly, I don't blame the NHS clinics that require a husband or partner either. In those cases there's at least a chance the issue is male factor, and that's easier to succeed at IVF with. That and a built in support person during the IVF and—if lucky—pregnancy after, also likely leading to better outcomes. With only so much money to go around, it makes a cold sense why they'd prioritize those patients.

I mean, it sucks if you're single, but life sort of ain't fair and the NHS wouldn't have paid for that one lady's six cycles even if she was married. Six cycles is insane, for the record. If you know you're single and know you want kids, it's kinda on you to get that sorted earlier and you're foolish to count on IVF or the NHS to rescue you. :marseyshrug: