A new lottery in the UK will offer parents the chance to win IVF treatments. Costing £20 ($32) a ticket, monthly winners will be awarded fertility treatments worth £25,000 ($40,000), The Daily Telegraph reports. Couples are to be given donor eggs, reproductive surgery or a surrogate birth if the IVF treatment fails.
To Hatch, the charity involved, has been given the go-ahead to run the lottery by the Gambling Commission.
Camille Strachan, founder of To Hatch, said: "We will offer struggling couples a completely tailor-made service. We hope the To Hatch Lottery can ease the burden on the NHS and reduce the stress slightly on some of those who are struggling."
However, a spokesman for ethical dilemma group Comment on Reproductive Ethics countered: "Creation of human life should not be reduced to a public lottery. "Instead of this, shouldn't more [money] be spent on research into fertility problems?"
The lottery isn't restricted to couples. Donor sperm will be given to a single woman if she wins, while a single man will receive a surrogate mother and donor embryo.
The prize can also be passed on to friends or family if the winning player has no need for a child. Geez Louise, I'm not quite sure how I feel about this development; but deep down, a little voice is telling me that it is okay. The people who buy tickets will want that baby very much and 'Good Luck' to them.
To Hatch, the charity involved, has been given the go-ahead to run the lottery by the Gambling Commission.
Camille Strachan, founder of To Hatch, said: "We will offer struggling couples a completely tailor-made service. We hope the To Hatch Lottery can ease the burden on the NHS and reduce the stress slightly on some of those who are struggling."
However, a spokesman for ethical dilemma group Comment on Reproductive Ethics countered: "Creation of human life should not be reduced to a public lottery. "Instead of this, shouldn't more [money] be spent on research into fertility problems?"
The lottery isn't restricted to couples. Donor sperm will be given to a single woman if she wins, while a single man will receive a surrogate mother and donor embryo.
The prize can also be passed on to friends or family if the winning player has no need for a child. Geez Louise, I'm not quite sure how I feel about this development; but deep down, a little voice is telling me that it is okay. The people who buy tickets will want that baby very much and 'Good Luck' to them.
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