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IVF Clinics Told To Clamp Down on Test Tube Multiple Births

Women who want an IVF baby will be forced to undergo more attempts at fertility treatment using just one embryo at a time, to avoid the risk of multiple births. Clinics which flout strict new rules, to be introduced next month by the Government's IVF watchdog, face enforcement action including losing their licence. The new rules, enshrined in a formal code of practice, will replace the previous "One at a Time" policy which was introduced last year by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) last year, but which carried no sanctions against clinics which breached it. Dollars Over Human Life: However, it is feared that the new regulations will increase the overall cost of having an IVF baby. For couples who pay privately the cost could rise from around £5,000 to £10,000 or even £15,000, because they will require more cyles of treatment in order to conceive.
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Posted by Editor at March 15, 2010 12:07 AM