Quebec’s IVF restrictions: Economics or ethics?
By MARINA ADSHADE,
The Globe and Mail
| 12. 12. 2014
Last week, Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette tabled a bill
that, if passed, will prohibit women over the age of 42 from having
access to in vitro fertilization (IVF). While the purpose of the bill,
on the surface at least, is to lessen financial strain on the health
care system, this particular section of the bill will achieve a
different outcome; it will reduce the number of births to Quebec women
who rely on the use of donated eggs to conceive.
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Quebec started providing medicare for
assistive reproductive technologies (ART) in 2010 in the hope of
achieving three objectives: reduce health care costs resulting from
multiple births; enable infertile couples to have children; and increase
the number of births in the province by between 1,000 and 1,500 per
year.
Despite claims that the program
has been widely abused, the number of births to Quebec woman has only
fallen since...
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