Is this a good use of NHS funds given the present financial situation?

[Baldric]

http://uk.news.yahoo....vf-nhs-234726426.html

Considering the NHS was founded to provide health care for the masses

[China Doll]

Very similar discussion here too.http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Quest
ion1135561.html

[China Doll]

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1135561.html

[d9f1c7]

IVF should not be free for anyone on the NHS, there are no shortage of people. If people what IVF then they should pay for it otherwise they can adopt.

[anneasquith]

no.

[youngmafbog]

The NHS should be for illness only.

[Philtaz]

Seems to be a waste of money and resources when there are so many children up for adoption these days.
Only a week or two back there were news reports about the lack of people who were adopting and how the government were speeding up the process, making couples have to jump through less hoops to complete the process.

[johnny37]

I agree. Its just hard luck. Judging from the answers here not many people think otherwise. I suppose it is possible for a woman to be suffering from severe depression because of inability to conceive but IVF on the NHS is not the answer.

[jomifl]

I am interested in seeing the result of IVF treatment on a gay couple.

[flip_flop]

No.

Having children is a lifestyle choice - I fail to see why my taxes should pay for anybody's (straight or gay) lifestyle choice.

[woofgang]

What is interesting is that every time this subject comes up, the balance has shifted a bit towards no or less fertility treatment on the NHS

[boxtops]

I commented on the post yesterday that not all of us are destined to bring forth children - we had to grin and bear it, it's not for all of us. I don't see that the same-sex argument is any different. Having children is a natural function, not a human right -if you can't have any, you learn to live with it.

[woofgang]

boxy if you had posted that a year ago, you would have been ripped to shreds.

[ummmm]

But some people can't learn to live with it.

[Hopkirk]

Why on earth do you say 'of course they should' to item 1, 2short?

The world is going mad!

[ummmm]

Absolutely agree with you Planks.

[Kiki-frog]

No. Whether a couple is hetero or homosexual, I really don't think that NHS money should be spent on helping them to reproduce. Of course it's heartbreaking for a couple not to be able to have children. But not as heartbreaking as seeing a loved one suffer or even die due to want of sufficient funds to treat their illness.

[woofgang]

umm its only comparatively recently that successful IVF has been available. Before that (and at a time where there was much more social pressure on women to reproduce) by and large, you lived with it.