Heterosexual women have had virgin births after undergoing IVF in Britain, The Mail on Sunday reveals.
they have started opting for the £5000 pregnancy treatment which gets them pregnant without the help of a man, some of them claim to be saving themselves for a special relationship.
campaigners for the traditional family said the ‘distorted’ move turned babies into little more than ‘teddy bears’ to be ‘picked off the shelf’, as doctors reveal more than 25 women have birthed babies from the process
Religious groups said it undermined the importance of bringing up children in a stable marriage, while a leading psychotherapist warned that having a mother who had never been in a relationship could harm a child’s development.
Many of these women who opt for this, say they are ready to have children and dont want to wait for the right man.
‘A small percentage have never been in a relationship and never had sexual intercourse.
Over the past three years, Miss Ragunath has treated three such single virgin women: one a nurse, another living at home with her parents, and a third who needed multiple rounds of IVF. All became mothers.
It has been stressed by that every woman must see a counsellor before treatment in order to understand the process and the implications of using donor sperm. Children born this way have the right to trace their biological father once they reach 18.
Gedis Grudzinskas, an experienced Harley Street infertility consultant, said it was essential doctors assessed ‘the circumstances into which a child would be born’ before agreeing to help a single, virginal woman get pregnant.
‘Just because money talks does not mean it’s the right thing to do,’ he said.
The treatment involves donor sperm fertilising the eggs of single women, either being introduced through the vagina – a process called intrauterine insemination, or in the lab with in vitro fertilisation. Most choose the latter as success rates with IVF are double that with IUI.
No comments:
Post a Comment