Have Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie presented us with a new medical necessity vs. convenience dilemma? Are they front-runners to a new trend in babymaking for the young, fecund and impatient?
Victoria Beckham's too-posh-to-pushedness made her the poster child for what turned out to be the non-trend of elective c-section. Now Hollywood's favorite parents, the Jolie-Pitts, could be bringing us another non-medically indicated medical procedure in family-making.
The Daily Mail is reporting that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie conceived their twins via IVF.
'They conceived through in vitro fertilisation,' a source described
as being close to Jolie and Pitt, 44, said. 'They both desperately
wanted more babies soon.'
They chose the US$12,000 procedure so
'she wouldn't have to deal with the stress of trying to get pregnant,'
the source added. 'She could just knock it out.'
'Things were so hectic with their filming schedules and the kids, the
simply didn't have time to keep trying. They were too impatient.'
The article says the couple is shooting for 10 kids. They're, what, more than half-way there now? Jolie has apparently said in the past that they'd like to be young while they raise their kids (two contradictory goals, but I digress).
Said one doctor:
But Dr Arthur Wisot of the Reproductive Medical Group in Los Angeles,
who did not treat the couple, said: 'We live in an era of reproductive
freedom, so anybody can do anything they want within legal limits.
What do you think? IVF for all or only when absolutely necessary? Feel like they're cheating or just making efficient use of their relative youth (actually, Brad's getting old.) I'm all for choice -- safe choices -- and I'd no sooner limit their desire for IVF than another family's desire for biological children, homebirth, VBAC, adoption. I sure hope the above good doctor on board for all that as well. (Who knows, maybe he is.)
Photo: The Sun
