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Join The Crowd: Crowdfunding For Fertility Treatments

From presidential Missy Elliott tracksuits to crystal bacon sculptures, the crowdfunding world has seen its share of out-there efforts, but there’s plenty of real-life stuff going on, too.
Case in point: the growing popularity of using crowdfunding platforms to fund fertility treatments—from endometriosis surgery to IVF to egg freezing. (Currently, there are more than 130 such campaigns on GoFundMe alone, and more than 160 on YouCaring.)

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Surgeon Howard Jones, Who Pioneered IVF, Dies at 104

Surgeon Howard Jones, who pioneered in vitro fertilization, died Friday at 104. Jones, who was still writing and active in his field until a recent illness, enjoyed a medical career longer than most people’s lives. Although he had a series of triumphs as a surgeon, he became best known for something he achieved at age 70. In 1981, he and his wife, physician Georgeanna Jones, ushered in the birth of the first baby born through IVF in the USA.

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I’m an Unintended Consequence… I’m an Infertility Advocate

Since its inception, more than five million babies worldwide have been born as a result of IVF. And currently, one percent of all U.S. babies are born as a result of IVF each year. Despite its utilization over the past 34 years and the advancements in the science behind the procedure, the politics and “social acceptance” of undergoing IVF have not changed much at all. Infertility is a disease; the reasons for using IVF, and even getting access to it, are misunderstood and often impacted by the policies of the pro-life movement.

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Effect of Fertility on Perinatal Outcomes

The impact of ART in a fertile setting cannot be studied because otherwise fertile women cannot be randomly assigned to IVF treatment due to ethical concerns. Recent advances in technology, however, could present an opportunity. Couples with proven fertility may elect to undergo preimplantation genetic testing, and the perinatal outcome of these pregnancies could be used to evaluate an unstudied group: fertile women utilizing ART. An adverse impact observed among them could represent the adverse impact of ART itself.

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Palestinians Pay High Cost to Conceive

According to Aajour, the cost for an IVF is somewhere between $2,200 and $2,500. Referring to the rising number of people resorting to infertility treatment centers in Gaza, he said, “People often look for an IVF at a price that suits them, due to the deteriorating economic conditions in Gaza and the lack of governmental support for families suffering delayed childbearing, in addition to the lack of charities’ support.”

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Medical Experts Talk Kim Kardashian, Sex Selection, And The Fear Of ‘Designer Babies’

Kim had just announced that she and Kanye were expecting a second child, a boy conceived through In Vitro Fertilization. Kim reportedly had only male embryos implanted; as you may have heard, she and Kanye already have a girl. Now they’re having a boy. (Update: Kardashian has since denied those reports, though she has confirmed she’s expecting a boy.)Steinberg founded The Fertility Institute in 1986. The technology rumored to be utilized by the Kardashian-Wests isn’t brand new, he pointed out — sex-selection is about 20 years old, IVF near 35 — but “people call us up, and they can’t believe it’s available.” After the Kim and Kanye news came out, the center was “blitzed” by calls, Steinberg said.

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Will Sex become Purely Recreational by 2050?

The late Austrian scientist Carl Djerassi, a key player in the development of the birth control pill, boldly proclaimed last year that IVF is the future of procreation.”Over the next few decades, say by the year 2050, more IVF fertilizations will occur among fertile women than the current five million fertility-impaired ones,” he told The Telegraph. “For them the separation between sex and reproduction will be 100 percent.”