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There's a baby drought in Australia. Maybe we should fund IVF? (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 7 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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[-] zik@aussie.zone 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm literally one of those people who you say is vanishingly small.

It's not even a "the world is bad and I don't want to subject my child to that" kind of decision. It's more like a series of thoughts over the years: "is this the right time to have a kid?" and it's never a good time.

[-] anathema_device@bne.social 8 points 7 months ago

@zik @Zagorath me too, so is my husband, and another married couple we are close friends with. So that's five of us at least.

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