Recently there has been a lot of controversy surrounding the use of IVF . In the media for example, huge fashion master Dolce Gabana criticised using IVF to make he’s kids. Dolce Gabana believe that it is wrong to have IVF for a gay couple because a child is meant to have a mother and father and is meant to be conceived naturally through intercourse.

IVF has been an option for both gay and straight couples who can not conceive children through natural means. Normally they resort to using IVF where they make what is usually called a “test tube baby” which is made in a laboratory using an egg from a female from a straight couple or for a male gay couple they would use a surrogate mothers egg and she will carry the embryo when it has started to fertilise with a sperm sample.

A question that has recently started causing commotion is that whether couples who are unable to conceive naturally receive state funding to have IVF treatment. Out of the thousands of people asked on-line via a questionnaire, 57% of people agree that the state should fund for couples to have IVF. Comments that were left by the public who voted were some what emotional in some cases for example some one put in bold capital letters “YES EVERYBODY IS ENTITLED TO HAVE KIDS”. Such a small sentence but carries a huge meaning with it. Why can’t everybody have kids? Why won’t the state who are meant to look out for us be there for us, not provide us with the funding to create people’s dreams of having a family come true?

People disagree on it on the cases that it’s not natural and its a waste of money because it doesn’t always work for the people and that could cause them more devastation in their life. IVF is also not liked because it can be seen as supportive towards gay couples having families of their own and of course people object to the matter of gay marriage and gay relationships because they also think it’s not natural.

One thing about IVF is sadly it doesn’t always work, in fact according to the percentage rate of IVF use in 2010, for women less than the age of 35, only 32.2% of all treatments were successful and for women who were over the age of 44, 1.9% of treatments were a success. IVF is recommended to be used when a woman is at a younger age because her eggs are believed to be more healthier and will have more chance of working. This doesn’t stop some women going to receive the treatment because they really want to have a family.

Me personally i agree with IVF because behind all the bad things people say about it, to me it will always be something that helps people by giving them a stronger chance of having kids. some people have dreams/goals to have a family of there own but they cant have it. This will always be a second bit of hope for them. i also think that there are other options like adoption, surrogacy, fostering etc but i still believe that IVF is one of the better option because it means that the baby is from the same parents if your in a straight couple where as adoption the child will not be yours and surrogacy, the baby wont be from the same parents.

IVF will always be talked about in a split argument between wrong or right, and it will always cause controversy no matter what is said about it, but it will always be seen as a chance of hope for people who really need it and really want children and a family of there own.

This is a problem I felt that needed to be addressed.