Torah Tidbits Issue 1367 - 25/04/20

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Puah for Fertility and RABBI GIDEON Machon Gynecology in Accordance with Halacha WEITZMAN

Keeping Safe

could be their last hope of ever achieving a pregnancy.

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While no one wants to endanger themselves, couples experiencing fertility are sometimes willing to go to great lengths to get pregnant and have children. We have heard many heart-wrenching questions from couples facing the difficult choice of undergoing treatment or giving up hope of having a baby. Since no one knows how long this will continue, for some this may mean that they will never have their own children.

n the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic PUAH received a barrage of questions some of which we discussed last week. Couples who had embarked on treatment asked us whether they should stop the treatment in the middle, continue and potentially expose themselves to the virus or create embryos and freeze them instead of transferring them back into the uterus. While these questions may not seem as crucial as some of the other dilemmas raised by this pandemic, for a couple undergoing fertility treatment these are far from trivial issues. The couple has lived with the tension and pain of fertility for years, has invested time, money and emotional effort in fertility treatment. This may be their first attempt, but it

These are difficult times and they require a special type of empathy and sensitivity to others At PUAH we faced another problem;

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