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Call for fertility ban for obese
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Very obese women should be denied fertility treatment, experts say.
The British Fertility Society is recommending women with a body mass index of 36 and over should not be allowed access to fertility treatment.
Underweight women and those classed just as obese (BMI over 29) should be forced to address their weight before starting treatment, the society said.
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What do you think? Do you agree with it or not?
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ITA.
And if you are too skinny it is as unhealthy as if you are really fat anyway...
btw I'm with stupid, I like your avatar
I've heard of bodybuilders being told they're technically obese, because based on thier height, they are far heavier than they should be, so you can never use BMI as a definitive guide.
Isn't that muscle and not fat?
I saw this on the news last night. I agree with it, also I agree with the thing about age as well.
Calculating height & weight is complete bs, its not accurate at all. The most accurate way of determine how much bf one has, is underwater weighing & possibly skin calipers. I have stood on machines that tell me I need to loose weight & even gives tips on how! :rolleyes:
The vast majority no. Luxury items, such as chocolate biscuits yes. But not Jaffa Cakes, as they're a cake not a biscuit ??
They're penguins, everyone knows that.
I suppose some of the reactions might be that the people who carry out IVF (the doctors!) are "playing God" by choosing who can or can't have children by putting these limits on IVF treatment. But, they are already "playing God" by helping to conceive unnaturally. (Is unnaturally the right term here?)
Reading the link, it says that this will end the postcode lottery that decides a lot of IVF cases. It makes sense from a medical point of view - not allow it to people where it is least likely to work, which saves money. It also means that the time and resources they are not using on cases where it is least likely to work can be spent on other people who have more chance of conceiving.
Also, if you are desperate to conceive yet considered to be obese and therefore not allowed treatment, it is usually possible to lose the weight, or put it on if you are considered underweight.
being able to bear a child is a privilige not a right
I don't agree with you. So if people can't see they shouldn't get help with blind things?
Should only people of perfect health be allowed to have kids then? Poor people shouldn't?
sometimes those people seem so desperate it almost makes the kid seem a possesion to them
health /= fertility
where did i say poor people cant have kids?
do you honestly think there is a right to bear a child? i don't personally
just because they want to be parents really bad doesn't make them obsessed with wanting a baby just because 'everyone else has'
You said that IVF shouldn't be given for free.