Ontario is talking about "free" IVF: So I ask you, when did having children become an inalienable right? When did we become a society where people deserve to have children?
Ontario has a $10.9 billion deficit. Ontario’s health budget under the Liberals is $50.1 billion (a 2.8 per cent increase over the last year), which represents 41.9 per cent of all program spending in the province. A growing and ageing population requires care. Seniors take up half of the health care dollars which could lead to 59 per cent of health costs by 2031. And the latest surveys tell us that we have reached a point where there are more Canadians over 65 than under 14.
So why did the Ontario Liberal government decide to provide free in vitro insemination to all people who ask? One free cycle of IVF will be available “regardless of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, family status, disability, etc.,” despite evidence that obesity can reduce success and research at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto shows that IVF has a success rate of 47% for women under 35 and drops to 25% for those 41 and 42. And they plan to go ahead despite the failure of a programme like this in Quebec.
