Louise ‘might not be born now’

UNDER today’s budget pressures on the NHS, it is unlikely Louise’s parents would have been eligible for treatment.

And despite pioneering the technique in the 1970s, Britain is now lagging behind other countries in IVF provision. Aileen Feeney, from Fertility

FACT Aileen Feeney Network UK, said: “IVF advancements have gone hand-in-hand with an increase in rationing of medical treatment. “If Louise’s parents wanted NHS IVF today, they would be turned down by 83% of Clinical Commissioning Groups on social rationing grounds: Mrs Brown was clinically infertile but Mr Brown already had a child.”