When I read a book about in vitro fertilization few years ago, I could not believe my eyes. Because the technology for making a baby in the test tube at the laboratory was unacceptable for me ethically. At that time, …show more content…
Usually doctors get one egg from women’s body, yet sometimes they can get some eggs unexpectedly. If doctors frozen these eggs, these eggs are still useful over several decades. Also, these eggs can be given to other candidates as donor eggs. According to Geoffrey Sher, the frozen eggs have much high rate of fertilization than natural one. Through frozening eggs, many people can have IVF easier than before. Thus, IVF can help to couples who cannot have babies naturally, same sex couples, and old women so that it is necessary …show more content…
“ A single in vitro fertilization attempt can run $15,000 to more than $20,000 depending on how much embryo testing is done and whether some embryos are frozen to allow multiple attempts from one batch.” (Marilynn) Marilynn states that IVF is not cheap. There are however, five ways to make costs of IVF cheap. First way is finding health insurance. Although there are only few health insurance which can support IVF, candidates have still hope to get support from insurance. The second way is having treatment at clinic which suggests refund problem. Refund problem is for people who do not waste their money. The problem pays part of costs if IVF is unsucceeded. Because the success rate in IVF is not high, the problem would help candidates very much. The third way to make costs of IVF cheaper is getting support from non-profit organization. In U.S. there are few organization for IVF patients. The organization cannot pay much money, yet their support can be small hope for many candidates. The forth way is planning loan at clinic. Some IVF clinic have efficient plan to IVF treatment. Candidate search many plans and find the best one. The fifth way to make costs of IVF cheap is medical tourism. In U.S. medical costs are more likely to be expensive because of medical system. Therefore, taking IVF treatment in foreign country is also good way to have cheap IVF. For using the five ways, IVF would be cheaper so that