The “Lived Pain” Experience: The Case of Women Undergoing IVF treatments

Haelyon, Hilla; Gross, Chen

doi:10.2989/ipjp.2011.11.1.5.1104

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“…Most respondents expected that IVF treatment would have little or no impact on their finances, employment, lifestyle, or health. Consistent with this generally trusting and optimistic outlook, other small studies have found that most Jewish Israeli women undergoing IVF treatment succeed in repressing or at least not complaining much about their experience of pain caused by repeated injections, egg retrievals, transvaginal ultrasounds, and illness resulting from treatment (Benjamin and Ha'elyon 2002;Ha'elyon 2010;Ha'elyon and Gross 2011;Remennick 2000).…”

Section: State Versus Women's Interests?mentioning

confidence: 80%

Family Welfare Effort, Total Fertility, and In Vitro Fertilization: Explaining the Israeli Anomaly

Shenhav-Goldberg

Brym

Lenton-Brym

2019

Canadian Review of Sociology

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The theory of family welfare effort is a leading macro‐sociological explanation of variation in human fertility. It holds that states which provide universally available, inexpensive, high‐quality day care, generous parental leave, and flexible work schedules lower the opportunity cost of motherhood. They thus enable women, especially those in lower socioeconomic strata, to have the number of babies they want. A considerable body of research supports this theory. However, it is based almost exclusively on analyses of Western European and North American countries. This paper examines the Israeli case because Israel's total fertility rate is anomalously high given its family welfare effort. Based on a review of the relevant literature and a reanalysis of data from various published sources, it explains the country's unusually high total fertility rate as the product of (1) religious and nationalistic sentiment that is heightened by the Jewish population's perception of a demographic threat in the form of a burgeoning Palestinian population and (2) the state's resulting support for pro‐natal policies, including the world's most extensive in vitro fertilization (IVF) system. The paper also suggests that Israel's IVF policy may not be in harmony with the interests of many women insofar as even women with an extremely low likelihood of becoming pregnant are encouraged to undergo the often lengthy, emotionally and physically painful, and risky process of IVF.

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Section: State Versus Women's Interests?mentioning

confidence: 80%