[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by jambutty

What I mean is that if the inability to become pregnant or father a child is down to a genetic malfunction, won’t that same or similar malfunction be passed on to the resultant baby? Then she or he will have the same sort of problem and so it goes on and on.

Don’t take this too harshly but if a woman is unable to conceive or a man unable to father a child, isn’t that nature’s way of saying, “hang on we have a defective person here and we don’t want to pass the defect on to further generations.”

We could be in danger here of going down the road where people with a history of hereditary illnesses would be excluded from IVF (things like diabetes, epilepsy......?) then we're only a step away from saying that such people should be discouraged from having children naturally. In which case my two wouldn't be here because their Dad was diabetic and there's a history of epilepsy in my mother's family. I know that may sound like scaremongering but once you're on a slippery slope it can sometimes be difficult to get off.