good fricking grief!

Yeah it's quite some time since my last blog post. Why you ask? I'm not really sure why, I guess it's because I'm not really good at coming up with titles. Anyways on with the blog. Earlier this week, some panel recommended that the provinicial government pay for fertility treatments for singles, HIV positive people and also fund in vitro for 3 cycles for women under the age of 42.

My thoughts: If you can't afford to pay for more than one cycle of in vitro w/o success, well then perhaps you shouldn't be having kids in the first place. After all it costs $300,000 to raise a child from birth to 18 years of age. And besides deciding to have kids (or not) is a personal & private decision, so why would anyone in their right mind want the government to step in such a personal & private matter?