Report: Over 5 million children have been born through IVF.

5 Million Children Have Been Born From IVF, One-Third in Last Six Years

by Dr. Peter Saunders

Over 5 million children have been born through IVF. The figure comes from a study, the first of its kind, into IVF statistics from countries around the world.

According to Bioedge, Researchers scoured government archives for information about how many women had used the procedure since its introduction and estimated that 900,000 children had been born after IVF in China alone.

Of all children in the world born by IVF, an astounding one-third of these children have been born in the past six years.

A lot of this has to do with increased success rates. IVF has enabled babies to be born to couples who would not otherwise have been able to conceive.

But on the other hand IVF has also opened what many regard as a Pandora ’s Box of genetic engineering, cloning, pre-implantation diagnosis, embryonic stem cell harvest and animal-human hybrids.

The demand has also been fuelled by the rising levels of infertility which are exacerbated both by sexually transmitted disease (leading to tubal damage) and women delaying attempting to have children until such time as their natural fertility starts to drop off. Women wrongly assume that IVF is a good fallback solution when in fact the success rates are 40-50% for the under-35s, dropping to 20% for the under-40s and just 5% for women aged up to 43.

There are over two million infertile couples in the UK (one in seven) and infertility can carry real stigma. Infertility can result from defects in the production, release or transport of egg or sperm and successful treatment depends on accurate diagnosis. The range of treatments and their speed of development is bewildering, and not all couples need IVF: other common treatments include artificial insemination (AI), intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and gamete intra-fallopian transfer (GIFT).

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