To some this may seem a little harsh, but, if a couple can't have children well, isn't that just part of the great scheme?  Something to do with Natural Selection.  Surely, it's not outside the realms of possibility that the reason a man doesn't make enough sperm, a woman not enough eggs or a woman miscarrying multiple times, then maybe, this is because the body knows there is something amiss and, as a defence mechanism, disables that individual from reproducing.

Whilst I have every sympathy for any childless (normal) couple who sincerely want a family but can't, I cannot arrive at any other conclusion than 'tough'!  Yes, I'm sorry you can't have children, but...  once again, tough.  It just isn't meant to be.  Just because mankind has the knowledge to do something, it doesn't necessarily mean that we should.

In addition, it is NOT a 'human right' to have children! (You can read my opion on human rights here.)

OK, so I come at this not only as a successful father of three (now grown-up and healthy) children, but also as one who cares for the future the future integrity of the human race (not to mention being a tax-payer - why should I help fund the gratification of 'flawed' couples?).  Why do we (as a society) constantly strive to thwart Gaia?  I, for one, have more faith in her than in my fellow 'man'!

If genetically flawed, but otherwise normal, couples want to explore the IVF avenue of 'treatment', why should the NHS fund it?  We don't need these potentially flawed individuals.  If these 'normal' couples want to go down this road then let them privately fund the IVF treatment and, more importantly, the immediate family should have to privately fund all subsequent medical costs incurred throughout the lifetime of the individual produced by the IVF method!

I'm sorry if you don't like my point of view on this topic but maybe you, the reader, need to stop being so sentimental and think more about the consequences of such selfish actions on the rest of humanity!
Currently, we can barely afford neccessary treatments/operations (and not lets forget pensions). How is all of this going to be payed?

And as for letting queers (but I suppose I should, at this point, say 'lesbians') have access to IVF - that's totally unacceptable (in my opinion).  A family comprises a man, a woman and at least one child - not two women and a child! (God forbid two men and a child!).

No! I'm not a bigot - just realistic (remember Darwin and his 'On the origin of Species' - QED!).  Two women alone cannot procreate;  two men alone cannot procreate - they're not meant to.  It's not 'natural'.

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