Katie Couric's Notebook: Fertility Clinic
Several states are considering bills. One in Georgia would bar doctors from implanting more than three embryos in women 40 or older, or two in younger women. That's more restrictive than voluntary guidelines in place now -- guidelines that weren't followed in the octuplets' case.
Fertility advocates say that is too restrictive, that an extreme case shouldn't limit the chances for responsible people who often have to pay an average of $12,000 per cycle for in vitro fertilization, or IVF.
Technology is miraculous...and IVF gives hope to families who may not have been able to conceive otherwise. But this is an example where that technology may be ahead of the morals and ethics codes...necessary to keep the baby business...balanced.
That's a page from my notebook.