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Existential Playground's avatar

A few thoughts:

"Of course, relative to subsidizing young moms this sort of program has the disadvantage that not all eggs which are frozen are eventually used for IVF. Because we don’t want to pay for frozen eggs that end up unused, we could stipulate that program users will be expected to either pay back half the costs incurred for any eggs that remain unused by the time they’re 50, or else donate those eggs to another mother."

I presume if we can into larger, collective programs for egg-freezing, that the scale would bring costs down, which would take diminish the financial downside.

I think the latter two suggestions would be unnecessary and unhelpful. If we're having them pay for the cost of treatments for unused eggs, that would feel coercive, particularly if they had been hoping to use the eggs and just hadn't found a partner or some other circumstance limited them. (As well, I don't think there are any other publicly funded treatments like that, whereby recipients need to repay the subsidy, at least thinking of the Canadian system?)

Donating the eggs to another mother would also feel uneasy for some; I think that would need to be done on an opt-in basis as well.

A final thought is potentially to provide the cost of egg-freezing treatments to families who do have kids naturally prior to that point, such that they receive some financial benefit as well. (This could be done in a selective way, such that it pays for education or recreation programs for the kids, as opposed to a straight financial grant.)

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Incel Theory's avatar

Have you heard the latest news out of Alabama regarding In Vitro Fertilization?

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