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There's a baby drought in Australia. Maybe we should fund IVF? (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 5 months ago by TinyBreak@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone
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Maybe, just maybe it shouldn't cost close to 10k to even TRY to have a kid through IVF? More like 15k out of pocket costs till the Medicare rebate anyway.

1 in 6 aussie couples will struggle with infertility whilst 1 in 20 kids is born of IVF. https://monashivf.com/one-in-six/

1 in 6 couples. 1 in 20 babies. You can see a fair gap here. Unless your comfortably "middle class", you screwed. yes there are some public clinics with no gap, but the wait times are staggering. If we're worried about falling birth rates FULLY funding IVF and fertility treatments through Medicare is a no brainer.

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[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

It’s fucking gross when you treat babies as some good you can run out of and by extension I guess the people that give birth to them

Get knocked up for the economy! Create workers!

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well, yes.

Our assorted clans, tribes, societies or cultures regardless of where or when in our species' history have always relied on a stream of babies. Needing babies is not in question.

[–] Lintson@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

And when they didn't have a stream of babies they traded to get more people. Or just outright stole them.

It's going to be an interesting time when the generation of 10 people is faced with hunting and gathering for the generation of 1000. Pro-tip: It doesn't end well for the generation of 1000

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