21st Century Babies – Painful Choices With Fertility Treatment That Leads to the Most Dangerous Pregnancies – Series – NYTimes.com

by Melanie on 12/10/09 at 7:01 am

The insurance industry has long discriminated against treating infertility, a bona fide, AMA-recognized medical disease. It’s a cruel thing to do. It costs little to manage the treatment of infertility correctly. Fact: the infertile are considered disabled because they have lost a major life function.

“But the procedure the Stansels used is actually the major cause of quadruplets, quintuplets and sextuplets — the most dangerous pregnancies for both mother and children. While less effective than IVF, intrauterine insemination is used at least twice as frequently because it is less invasive, cheaper and more likely to be covered by insurance, interviews and data show.”

via 21st Century Babies – Painful Choices With Fertility Treatment That Leads to the Most Dangerous Pregnancies – Series – NYTimes.com.