Let me begin by saying I am seriously going to get flamed here, I'm sure...( and since this is MY BLOG I don't care!) but why do I have to turn on the evening news( again) and the lead story is (again) about yet ANOTHER PG, unmarried celeb who has enough money to give 300 of us free IVF cycles?
I seriously have no issue with Jessica Alba or any other celebrity ( well, maybe I have a small prob. w/BritBrit....) and I truly wish them well, but just for once, I 'd like to see an accurate , heartfelt story on the Evening news about the THOUSANDS of women who are in committed, healthy relationships,( or are just committed to being a parent) who can not conceive no matter what and the horrible price they are paying to desperately try.
Yet, these celebs continue to blithely gallivant in front of the press, showing off their "baby bump" ( that term turns my stomach....) and the rest of us just have to sit back and watch them blossom right before our infertile eyes. There is not a day that goes by when I don't see an issue of People, Us or Extra featuring another "knocked up" celeb.
Women, celebs and everyone else, have been getting PG for as long as creation, so why is it now the "fashionable" thing for all of them to have babies? And must they flaunt them to such insane levels? Actresses in the 50's, 60's 70's and 80's got PG, too. Seriously, can anyone recall any actress from the eighties being splashed all over every magazine in America just because she was PG?
I seriously think the media needs to redirect their focus on "baby bumps" and get back to reporting real news. There are so so many couples desperate to have kids ( or just ONE child) who can't get PG w/o ART, and don't have adequate IF coverage to even pursue the technology...and yet we as a nation glorify the unwed mother who just had an"oops" and put her on every magazine in the country.
I am really fed up with the cost, emotional and financial, of this quest we are on, and as I quickly use up my lousy $10,000 life time cap for IF coverage ( just on meds and b/w and consults) I won't have any coverage left if I can even GET to a single cycle with my own eggs. And then what do I do when my insurance runs out and I want to use DE's? And if the DE cycle fails ( as many do) where will I get the money and more importantly, the strength to try to adopt?
Why doesn't someone do a story on THAT!?
If I sound bitter, I am. And I won't apologize for it because I can't help the way I feel about this. Infertility NEEDS to be brought to focus in the media, RE's need to calm down with their fees, pharma companies need to back off on these outrageous prices.
Trying to conceive a child should not cause financial ruin for a couple who want so much to be parents.Watching the evening news should not be a daily reminder of that struggle. Yes, I know I can change the channel, or not buy the magazine....but I can't change the fact that what comes so easy and free to some is unattainable to so many, and we all deserve So much better than to have it splashed in our faces everywhere we turn.
::Stepping ever so gently off my soapbox::
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
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I totally and completely agree with you. Great entry!
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