• Question: What do you think of test tube babies?

    Asked by soapster to Antonia, Douglas, Hugh, Matt, Tom on 15 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by britishmcawesome.
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      Antonia Hamilton answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      another great advance from science. who should pay for them is a different question, one for society not just scientists

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      Matthew Hurley answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I think science helping people to have children is OK. Now the question I suppose is if we have a limited amount of money to treat everyone in the country, what is most important? Who should be treated?
      It’s difficult to have an opinion on this – personally I’ve treated babies who have been born through IVF and a lot of the time their parents want them very badly and look after them very well. That’s not to say that most children born through natural conception aren’t treated just as well though – oh you know what I mean!

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      Tom Hardy answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I think that if a couple cannot have a baby naturally that a “test tube baby” is a fantastic opportunity. A baby created in this way is just like any other baby, it is still from a mum and dad, it just grows somewhere different.

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      Hugh Roderick answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      That they give the opportunity to have children to couples who can’t have children naturally, which I think is generally a good thing.

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