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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? Hidden Content
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions! Hidden Content
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