{"id":14375,"date":"2009-10-19T10:04:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T15:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=14375"},"modified":"2012-10-14T01:52:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T06:52:03","slug":"the-cost-of-in-vitro-fertilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/19\/the-cost-of-in-vitro-fertilization\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of In-Vitro Fertilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I posted a table showing the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/08\/08\/im-just-guessing-here-but-hello-reproductive-technology\/\" target=\"_self\">dramatic rise in the birth of twins among women 45-49<\/a> (from less than 25 per 1,000 to almost 200 per 1,000 in 2002).\u00a0 The graphic below, included alongside a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/11\/health\/11fertility.html?emc=eta1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> article on the topic, shows the increased risk of preterm birth and low birth weight that comes with multiple births and the cost of taking care of premature babies (almost $51,000 versus under $5,000 for a baby born at term):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14377\" title=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/10\/11.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"354\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Given that the U.S. is discussing health care reform at the moment, it might be worth while to consider whether having a biological child is &#8220;worth&#8221; it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I posted a table showing the dramatic rise in the birth of twins among women 45-49 (from less than 25 per 1,000 to almost 200 per 1,000 in 2002).\u00a0 The graphic below, included alongside a New York Times article on the topic, shows the increased risk of preterm birth and low birth weight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2083,98,252,304],"class_list":["post-14375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortionreproduction","tag-capitalism","tag-healthmedicine","tag-the-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14375"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14380,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375\/revisions\/14380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}