Invitrofertilization is expensive, how can we afford this?
read on an Illinois government website that in Illinois, insurances have to pay for infertility treatment as long as they have 25 or more employees? Does anyone know anything about this or where I can find more out? Before I found the website, my insurance Company, Blue Cross, said they do not cover an infertility treatment. I am confused?
This is what I found:
“Illinois law requires group insurance plans and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to provide coverage for infertility. Here are the basic facts about the law.”
To get coverage you must:
“live in Illinois
be covered by a fully insured Illinois group policy through an employer with more than 25 full-time employees
have been unable to conceive after one year of unprotected sexual intercourse between a male and female or have been unable to sustain a successful pregnancy”
http://www.dfpr.state.il.us/DOI/HealthInsurance/infertility.asp
There are some caveats:
What is not covered:
“costs for procedures which violate the religious and moral teachings or beliefs of the insurance company or covered group”
“costs of preserving and storing sperm, eggs and embryos”
In Vitro Fertilization IVF
Superior A.R.T. is an infertility treatment center with recognized expertise specializing in a method to diagnose embryos with chromosomal and single genes disorders in order to provide solutions for couples with infertility and repeated miscarriage or those who gave birth to children with inherit disease, such as beta thalassemia or genetic abnormality like Robertsonian translocation. In the old days, as there was no treatment to the problems, the couples had to take all the risk of getting pregnant and repeated miscarriage. But today, thanks to the isted Reproduction Technology, Superior A.R.T. is capable of helping couples to get through such problems.
Why Superior A.R.T? Thats because at Superior A.R.T., we have available the expertise and advanced technology to diagnose genetic health of the embryos and select those without any genetic diseases to be transferred to the uterus.
There was a case of a couple who experienced problems of repeated miscarriage due to genetic abnormality of Robertsonian translocation. They received IVF treatment and PGD in which genetic material from the embryos is tested to see if they carry the genetic disease. Then only embryos not affected by the disease are transferred to the mothers womb. At the end, they achieved a pregnancy and gave birth to very healthy twin girls.
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Embryo Cryopreservation after In Vitro Fertilization Bergen County and New Jersey
http://www.northhudsonivf.com After ICSI or in vitro fertilization at our labs serving Bergen County and New Jersey, we utilize embryo cryopreservation for patients with left over embryos that are not transferred into the uterus. These embryos can be used in a subsequent cycle if the patient does not have a successful outcome with their first fertility treatment. Visit our website at http://www.northhudsonivf.com to learn more about cryopreservation.
You may contact our fertility specialists at:
North Hudson I.V.F.
385 Sylvan Avenue,
Englewood Cliffs,
New Jersey 07632
Ph. (201) 871-1999
Website: http://www.northhudsonivf.com
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In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) 101 (Pregnancy Health Guru)
It’s expensive and invasive–but if you are trying to get pregnant, it often works. Here is the real deal with IVF.
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The Pope Condemns In Vitro Fertilization / Video
The Pope Condemns In Vitro Fertilization. Courtesy of catholiconline.com
Pope Condemns In Vitro Fertilization: “Barrier protecting human dignity has been broken”
Addressing a plenary session of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith this morning, Pope Benedict XVI asked the Congregation to focus on “the difficult and complex problems of bioethics”. In his remarks he explained the Church’s prohibition on artificial procreation. Artificial procreation, such as in vitro fertilization, he said, has given rise to “new problems,” such as “the freezing of human embryos, embryonal reduction, pre-implantation diagnosis, stem cell research and attempts at human cloning”. All these, he said, “clearly show how, with artificial insemination outside the body, the barrier protecting human dignity has been broken.” The Pope added: “When human beings in the weakest and most defenceless stage of their existence are selected, abandoned, killed or used as pure ‘biological matter’, how can it be denied that they are no longer being treated as ‘someone’ but as ‘something’, thus placing the very concept of human dignity in doubt”. Judie Brown, President of American Life League points out in her new book – Saving Those ed Catholics – that while it is official Church teaching, most Catholics in North America have no clue that artificial procreation is immoral. Brown commented to LifeSiteNews.com on the Holy Father’s statements, saying, “As elated as I am about Pope Benedict’s comments this morning once again repeating the Church’s condemnation of the practice of in vitro fertilization, I am saddened by the realization that the American Catholic bishops refuse to even take up an explanation of what the Church teaches let alone condemn the evil practice of in vitro fertilization.” In his remarks the Pope stressed that the Church “cannot and should not intervene on every scientific innovation.” However, he said, “it has the task of reiterating the great values at stake, and providing the faithful, and all men and women of good will, with ethical-moral principals and guidelines for these new and important questions.” “The two fundamental criteria for moral discernment in this field”, he said, “are: unconditional respect for the human being as a person, from conception to natural death; and respect for the origin of the transmission of human life through the acts of the spouses”.
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