5% of Australian babies come through IVF
by Michael Cook | 19 Sep 2020 |
About 5% of babies born in Australia are IVF babies, according to the latest report from the University of New South Wales, based on figures from 2018.
As well, a record one in 10 babies born to women aged 35 and older are now products of IVF and an increasing number of women using frozen embryos to screen out chromosomal abnormalities.
The proportion of twins and triplets born following IVF treatment is now 3.2% -- a record low in Australia and New Zealand’s 40-year IVF history. This is due to the increased proportion of IVF cycles where only a single embryo is transferred, up from 79% in 2014 to 91% in 2018.
“By comparison, the percentage of multiple births from IVF treatment was 8% in the UK and 13% in the US during the same period,” says Professor Georgina Chambers, the lead author of the report.
The president of the Fertility Society of Australia, Professor Luk Rombauts, claims, as doctors and politicians in other countries have, that IVF could help bolster Australia’s fertility rate. “IVF represents a significant number of babies, and importantly the majority of these babies were singletons, which is safer for mothers and babies,” he says. “It is estimated that in the last 40 years, more than eight million babies have been born through IVF globally, a significant contribution to the population.”
Michael Cook is editor of BioEdge
Judge Amy Coney Barrett gave a gracious acceptance speech after being nominated by President Trump to the US Supreme Court. “The flag of the United States is still flying at half staff in memory of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to mark the end of a great American life,” she said. “She not only broke glass ceilings, but she smashed them. She was a woman of enormous talent and consequences and her life of public service serves as an example to us all.”
It was a moving tribute to RBG, but ACB is expected to help shift SCOTUS in a very different direction – more conservative, and above all, more sceptical of abortion. As I wrote before, bioethics is “at the very centre of this strange election”.
Michael Cook
Editor
It was a moving tribute to RBG, but ACB is expected to help shift SCOTUS in a very different direction – more conservative, and above all, more sceptical of abortion. As I wrote before, bioethics is “at the very centre of this strange election”.
Michael Cook
Editor
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