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Take The Fertility Quiz -or- Do I Really Need That Procedure?

July 6, 2009 - 5:52am 171 reads 0 comments

So there are Fertility Quizzes and there are Fertility Quizzes! The kind that you might expect is like the one that has been recently released by researchers at Cardiff University called "Do You Know About Your Fertility?" It is quite lovely and could be republished in any women's magazine. It is a lifestyle checker. You take the quiz and find out if you are at risk for infertility. Yes - that is one kind of "Fertility Quiz."

The other kind of fertility quiz is one that I just made up! Let's call it "Do You Really Need That Infertility Procedure?"

Sorry, but I don't have a nifty link for my made up quiz! You will just have to read it here.

So let me fill you in on a bit of inside "fertility industry" dirt. While the treatment of infertility is medicine – medicine is also big business. Now, the fertility industry (I hate calling it an industry) is not different than the "Cancer Industry" or "Addiction Industry." People are working in fields because they dig it - and because they are creating a livelihood.

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