Fresh from TERF island. Expect them to try the same shitfuckery in some states here. How do they “prove they are trying”?

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    How do they “prove they are trying”?

    pull up to the hospital with a thumb drive of the woman attempting to get pregnant in question getting railed laying on that day’s newspaper every day for 2 years

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      On a serious note though, i hate this so much. This is clearly just a homophobic/transphobic move but like, cishet couples shouldn’t have to “prove” that they’ve been trying to conceive for 2 years either. what the fuck?

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            On the other hand, the doctors at the NHS are already spread pretty thin and elective use of those resources should be minimized. IVF is not a nothingburger. It takes a lot of intervention. Hormone shots, constant checkups, and the actual implantation procedure, which often has to be done more than once.

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            A single cycle of IVF costs several thousand pounds, and hours of medical professionals labour. It normally takes 2-3 cycles to get pregnant.

            Allowing couples capable of conceiving naturally to apply for publicly funded IVF can only deny it to people incapable of doing so. Even under socialism, these things still cost limited resources.

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              … Well… there’s probably not a shortage of semen/egg storage facilities… probably not a shortage of hormones… definitely not a shortage of syringes and needles…

              So, I’m thinking there’s no reason for this to be treated as a “scarce” resource that needs rationing.

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                The scarce resource is the number of hours in a day for the medical staff to do this stuff. Add more medical staff specializing in IVF and it’s less of a problem.

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                  So a very minor thing of … scheduling. That’s pretty much it.

                  There is no huge demand for IVF that is going to crash the system. People aren’t waiting in line outside IVF clinics for their turn as it is, by all the accounts I’ve come across, its a pretty rough thing to go through.

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            This is in Terf Island so a couple that could conceive naturally but just wants to do IVF for some reason would just be taking up a slot of someone who actually needs IVF to conceive.

            If they want to pay for it out of pocket, then that’s fine.