Fertility testing is becoming more accessible as demand from Australian women increases. But what are the implications?
- thehenrymartin
- Feb 2, 2024
- 1 min read
Lucy Walton was aged 26, single, and in the depths of what she called "the panic years" when she joined a growing number of Australians testing their fertility. "It was the classic: 'Should I be travelling? Should I be settling down? Should I just be having fun?" she said. "I just wanted to get everything checked to know whether having kids would be something that was easy for me or challenging," she said. Until recently, fertility testing was considered an onerous, expensive, and time-consuming process that was mostly reserved for the one in six couples experiencing infertility or pursuing in-vitro fertilisation (IVF).
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