The Media and IVF
Posted on August 1, 2008
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So, I had read a few blogs about Brad and Angelia’s supposed IVF treatment for twins. Today I picked up a US Weekly - which I think is the first time I’ve actually picked up that magazine to read anything - and flipped quickly to the horrid article. I gasped at least 3 times out loud and shook my head the entire time. It makes me sick that the media portrays IVF as a “quick” way to become pregnant and totally discounts the challenge of the disease. It also makes me feel ill that Brad & Angelina used IVF to help build their “soccer” team quicker.
As noted in a Forbes.com article, there are risks associated with fertility treatments and/or infertility. Why someone would view IVF as a quick pregnancy option or a quick way to build their family is incomprehensible to me.
The only good that can come of this is more media attention to the topic of infertility and fertility treatments. The only reason why the topic is getting any press at all is because of celebrities. Even the smallest of steps can help the overall cause - at least that is what I’m going to believe and keep hoping that someday the perception and empathy/compassion toward those struggling with infertility will be like any other disease.
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From today’s Huffington Post:
Jolie says she and Pitt were “in shock and could not stop laughing” when they learned they were having twins, and denied speculation that they had conceived the children through in-vitro fertilization.
“If they had been conceived through IVF, we would have been happy to discuss it,” she says. “But we have been fortunate never to have had fertility problems.”
Well maybe she doesn’t have fertility problems and did IVF anyway as a “quick” way of getting pregnant.
I heard a comment on a podcast that someones friend used IVF and said “why bother having sex, just do IVF.”
I was appalled at that statement. If your marriage/partnership is so bad that sex is such a bother, maybe you should be working on your marriage before bringing anymore children into it.
As if IVF is just so easy and not a bother at all, please!
I am sorry but anyone who does IVF for a quick way to get pregnant is crazy. Those shots and that emotional rollercoaster is enough to drive a women insane. As if we don’t already feel like less of a woman because we can’t just have sex and get pregnant.