Alev Scott

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384 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 14 Jul

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the IVF sector is part of their tourism industry, which is huge.
It's like by far the biggest economy within that country.
And so it's hard for me to say, look, it's, you know, a dodgy place to go and freeze your eggs or have IVF because actually I was quite impressed by the clinics I went to and I have heard many good stories there, but I did encounter practices that I, well, surrogacy aside, if we're keeping with IVF, strictly IVF and
and egg freezing.
There are things that are done there that just aren't legal in many other countries.
So for example, women up to the age of 55 are treated, they can undergo IVF in Northern Cyprus.
And
I spoke to a gynecologist in the National Health Service here in the UK who was complaining about the number of women she treats who go and get pregnant and then have these extremely dangerous high-risk pregnancies where they're often pregnant with twins or triplets because obviously in IVF, the more embryos you implant, the higher your chance of achieving a pregnancy, but that can lead to multiples.
So a woman in her 50s coming back from Cyprus to the UK pregnant
And, you know, that's, that's a big burden on the NHS.
So that's a bigger conversation about like, kind of picking up the slack of people choosing their treatments abroad and coming back and needing treatment for high risk pregnancies.
But also, I'm not sure.
I'm not sure what I think about that.
the availability of that.
And other things like gender selection of embryos, that's legal in the US.
It's really, really frowned upon in other countries, including the UK and most of Europe.
Like I said before, I'm not a specialist in bioethics.
I don't have a degree in that.
I don't have ready answers here.
All I'm saying is that some of these things made me feel like
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