Religion and Medicine.

... Religion and Medicine In the UK every one in eight couple is affected with infertility, leaving about 2 million infertile couples, of which about 25% of males, 45% of female and 30% unknown are the causes of infertility. With the help of treatments so far there have been 21 000 test tube babies born so far, A quarter of which have been born in the last two years. The treatment costs about £2 000 per cycle and over 300 000 embryos have so far been produced, of these about 280 000 have been used for research or have died before birth. Multiple birth rates are higher than ever with 1774 twins, triplets and quadruplets (a third of all births) in the last 15 months. Overall 18.5% of IVF patients become pregnant and 15% have live babies are available, which is why more and more people are turning to medical treatments. There are

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