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    'Win a baby' - New lottery to award IVF treatments

    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.

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    Re: 'Win a baby' - New lottery to award IVF treatments

    This really is the limit in a sick world!
    No background checks I suppose?
    Will we see paedophile syndicates popping up as well, to increase their winning chances?
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