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Financial motives drive some doctors' decisions to offer IVF

  • Written by Wendy Lipworth, Senior Research Fellow, Bioethics, University of Sydney
imagePatients must be able to make informed decisions about whether to pursue IVF – and when to stop.posteriori/Shutterstock

Around one in 25 Australian babies are conceived using assisted reproductive technologies (ART), including in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). These interventions are almost all offered in private fertility clinics, backed by...

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