Due to the coronavirus, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine has recommended suspending new treatments.Tens of thousands of women across the country trying to have a baby through fertility treatments are in limbo because of COVID-19: They've had to postpone their appointments indefinitely due to coronavirusrecently issued by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. But now some fertility specialists and their patients are pushing back.
"I was like, wait a second — they're flat-out telling us we can't do IVF?" Zook recalled."I was shocked." Zook's fertility specialist, Dr. Beverly Reed, said that when she first saw the recommendations,"I was shocked, and then I said, OK, well, these are the guidelines. I've just got to follow them...My patients were sad. I was sad.""One of the questions from my patients was, 'Does coronavirus cause birth defects? Is that why we are being told we can't have treatment?'" recalled Reed, who works at IVFMD, a fertility center near Dallas."And I said...
But Dr. David Adamson, a former president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, said so little is known about how the new coronavirus could affect unborn babies that patients cannot make an educated decision about the wisdom of continuing treatments. Dr. Eve Feinberg, a member of the task force that wrote the recommendations, said it isn't just COVID-19's unknown health risks that prompted them.
She noted that when patients make repeat visits to a fertility clinic over weeks or months, they can come in contact with dozens of people — doctors, nurses, phlebotomists, ultrasound technicians, and so on — potentially spreading the coronavirus widely. Still, Kudrov said,"I'm not going to lie — being 44 and still wanting to get pregnant with my own biological baby, using my own eggs, this timing is critical. Every month feels like an egg wasted."
What a waste of a segment. You couldn't find anyone with zero children trying to conceive?
Parenting is a bitch, don’t rush in! Might be a blessing now you have to home school while day drinking.
Children are not a commodity.
This is not the time to have kids. Clearly with this kind of complaint these people's priorities are not straight. Get busy surviving or helping other people! THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO PROPAGATE!
A 43 year old who already has two children and is “outraged” her 1%’er IVF treatments are considered nonessential? Talk about peak entitlement. Unbelievable. This monster should be publicly shamed.
Maybe they can adopt some of the babies that aren’t being aborted?
As someone who was adopted and as someone with a uterus and ovaries, this is one of the most insulting things I've ever read. Personal desire =/= a need. You want to be a parent? Be a parent. You don't HAVE to be pregnant, no matter how much you want to be. AdoptDontShop.
You could have picked a better opener for a story. Boo hoo. The 43 year old who already has two kids can’t have a third. Find someone with no kids who wants to do ivf. Also pick a better expert. Stanford has one of the worst fertility centers in California.
You could have picked a better opener for a story. Boo hoo. The 43 year old who already has two kids can’t have a third. Find someone with no kids who wants to do ivf.
Can't imagine caring less about something.
Maybe you should tell them about the elite's eugenics and depopulation agenda, but then again they own NPR.
And yet conservatives are losing their minds over GovWhitmer decision to ban selling of seeds.
Sterilized through vaccines & now they charge you to have a baby.....why won’t people wake the hell up!!
I mean... yeah, that’s just one of the unfortunate sacrifices people have to make right now...
Oh for goodness sakes, adopt little ones. Thanks to right to life bullshit, there's a whole lot of unwanted kids. Plus if anyone dies of Covid type pandemic in the future there's not going to be any family at the death bed
Lady in the article is 43 years old and trying to get pregnant. I guarantee, in her early 20’s there was a nice guy who liked her and would have given her a bunch of kids. She chose whatever dumb job and the cock carousel instead. TOLL=PAID
Maybe someone who already has two healthy kids isn’t the best example.
It sounds Draconian, but it is an elective procedure.
RIIiiiiiight...that's JUST what this planet (and world-leaders) need...even MORE mouths to feed, clothe, house & employ. Get to POPPIN them blue-pills, guys...time to start pulling your weight ! :: eye-roll ::
Yall shoulda been creamin in your 20s. Sorry, feminists. You got lied to
Well, as some ppl like telling the high school students about missing prom or college kids about commencement “you’ll get over it.”
Wow, y'all. Some of y'all just woke up ready to fight. 😬 These treatments are expensive, time consuming, and emotionally taxing on the whole family. Having to stop midway through must be devastating. Your parents had you. These people want offspring, as well.
This is sad. “Essential” is context dependent.
The insensitivity in this thread... just, wow.
The entitlement of these people. Sorry, Karen, medical professionals have more important things to do than give you a procedure that probably won't work anyway. Go adopt a covid orphan.
Per governors in some of our united states abortion is essential but helping people have kids is not....what a screwed up world we live in.
Cancer patients are being told that their inpatient treatments are not essential and are being made to do with less effective outpatient treatments during the pandemic. Stop complaining -- EVERYONE is suffering. Fertility is not essential, living is. Save PPE for essential needs
Bringing to light that we have become a society reliant on medical procedures for fertility ... this will not end well.
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Wut? IVF has been cancelled forever? Come on NPR. I'm not even bothering with this article.
Adoption?
Meanwhile the hospitals are going broke from lack of patients. Seems illogical.
I don't understand why anyone would be having babies right now with so many unknowns on this COVID19 and with possibility of having to give birth w/o your partner
Children are a blessing to the world.
They are not loosing it just being put on hold right
Happy Easter to NPR and Staff! To all the nurse aids, nurses, and doctors and essential workers !
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Thanks Trump 😡
Yes, you're flat out being told this is non-essential. You may not like it, and I know the 'clock is ticking', but use your head.
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