Maybe, just maybe it shouldn’t cost close to 10k to even TRY to have a kid through IVF? More like 15k out of pocket costs till the Medicare rebate anyway.

1 in 6 aussie couples will struggle with infertility whilst 1 in 20 kids is born of IVF. https://monashivf.com/one-in-six/

1 in 6 couples. 1 in 20 babies. You can see a fair gap here. Unless your comfortably “middle class”, you screwed. yes there are some public clinics with no gap, but the wait times are staggering. If we’re worried about falling birth rates FULLY funding IVF and fertility treatments through Medicare is a no brainer.

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    Aren’t there enough people in the world already?!!?!?

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      The number of people in the world is predicted to start going negative before the end of this century.

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        Somehow I would not weep for that. Humanity has become a disease, if it was ever other than that.

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      No. We still need to build under water and under ground cities. Plenty of places to inhabit before trying to make a space station and go to the nearest planets.

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        Ha yeah, sorry. Need the slaves to do that for the rich people huh?