What are the disadvantages of IVF?
Test tube baby is a breakthrough in medical technology in recent years, which provides a glimmer of hope for couples who cannot conceive naturally. However, compared with other traditional birth methods, IVF also has some disadvantages. This article will elaborate on IVF in terms of physical health, psychological factors, ethical issues and costs.
Physical health problems
First, IVF may bring some risks to women's health. For IVF, women need hormone therapy to promote ovarian ovulation and endometrial thickening. These drugs may cause side effects, such as nausea, vomiting, allergic reactions, etc. In addition, pregnancy itself is a relatively heavy burden on women's body, and there may be risks of complications such as pregnancy hypertension and pregnancy diabetes during pregnancy.
Secondly, IVF will also bring certain genetic risks. Because IVF inseminates the fertilized egg into the uterus by artificial means, it is possible to conduct genetic testing on the embryo before implantation. However, despite genetic screening, it is still impossible to completely exclude the risk of genetic diseases in embryos, which may be a big hidden danger for some couples carrying genetic disease genes.
In addition, IVF may also have an impact on male health. Men need to provide semen samples before IVF, and may feel embarrassed and emotional fluctuations during this process. In addition, some men may face problems such as poor semen quality and insufficient sperm quantity, leading to a decline in the success rate of IVF.
psychological factor
Couples who carry out IVF also need to face a series of psychological pressures. First of all, IVF is a relatively long process. Couples need to go through multiple hormone therapy, embryo transfer and other steps, which may lead to anxiety, depression and other negative emotions. Secondly, the success rate of IVF is not 100%, and many attempts may still fail, which has hit the couple's psychology.
In addition, IVF may also cause parent-child relationship problems. For children born through IVF, they may have to face differences from biological parents, which may have complex emotional and identity problems for parent-child relationship.
In addition, IVF may bring some pressure to the couple's marriage relationship. After many unsuccessful attempts, there may be conflicts and frictions between the couple, resulting in the breakdown of the marriage relationship.
ethical issues
IVF involves a series of ethical issues. First, IVF may lead to too many embryos. In the process of IVF, doctors may take eggs many times to increase the success rate of pregnancy, so a large number of embryos are produced. However, if not all embryos are transferred, the remaining embryos will face processing problems. This leads to a moral dilemma: whether the treatment of embryos conforms to ethical norms.
Secondly, IVF may cause social injustice. Because of the high cost of IVF, only a few economically competent couples can undertake this process. This has led to a phenomenon of social inequality. Some couples with fertility aspirations but poor economic conditions cannot enjoy the benefits of IVF.
In addition, IVF also triggered thinking about the origin of life and human morality. IVF is an attempt to create life artificially, which has brought some moral problems to people, involving major issues such as human life and human dignity.
Cost issues
The cost of IVF is an indisputable fact. In reality, a test tube baby may cost tens of thousands of yuan or more. Moreover, IVF cannot achieve its goal in a single success, and multiple attempts will lead to further increase in costs. Therefore, the high cost of IVF may become an unbearable burden for many couples, limiting their possibility of choosing this birth method.
To sum up, although IVF provides hope for some infertile couples, there are also some bad aspects. There are certain problems and risks in physical health, psychological factors, ethical issues and costs. Therefore, when choosing IVF, couples need to consider their own conditions and risks comprehensively and make rational decisions.
