40 & Over Crowd Flocking to Treatment
The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has published documentation that more women who are 40 years of age and older are making use of fertility treatment.
The stats show a ten-fold boom from 1991 to 2006.
In this related article for
The Guardian, there's evidence of some ongoing debate about how fertility treatment is or should be presented as a solution for women of "advanced maternal age" (a term none too pleasing to the ear...)
Agreement seems to be that the increase in older mama-wanna-be's is not so much a result of new or better technology, but of things like financial ability to afford treatment coupled with an apparently growing number of women who are making the conscious life choices -- like putting off motherhood for careers, etc. -- that wind up impacting their fertility negatively.
Posted by TLMorris on 6/12/2007 9:56:57 AM
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