New Zealand fertility treatment specialists have no knowledge of assisting any virgin births, as have been reported from Britain, but don’t believe a woman’s sexual history should be their business anyway.
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Care Fertility, which runs five centres across England, is among the clinics to confirm virgin births.
She said that instead of career women who have been too focused on their work, many of her clients are in their 20s and either still in school or employed in very ordinary jobs.
“When I ask them why they are coming for treatment, very often the response is that they are ready to have a child and they don’t want to wait around for the right partner to come along”, she told the Mail on Sunday.
“Some wish to save sexual intercourse for a special relationship”. However, they all have one thing in common: a strong desire to start a family, with or without a man.
Maha Ragunath, medical director of Care Fertility in Nottingham, has treated three single virgin women, including one who still lived at home with her parents. All successfully became mothers.
But, this all comes with a price.
There is also concern that having a mother who has never been in a proper relationship could affect the child’s emotional development.
Josephine Quintavalle, of Comment on Reproductive Ethics, said: “What is the child for these women?”
What’s most surprising is that even though the ideal situation for child-rearing is within a traditional marriage or, at the least, a working relationship, these single mothers are often more emotionally and financially stable than others who have been left to bring up a child after a broken relationship.
Artificial insemination: United Kingdom media claims at least four major IVF clinics have helped women who have never had sex conceive.
Hasan said that when the man is removed from the aspect of a family, the woman becomes merely a breeding machine.
National Gamete Donation Trust chief executive Laura Witjens asserted that these young women have the right to choose to have the treatment if they want to.
She said this suggests that the woman is afraid of having a close physical relationship with others.
According to the report of Daily Mail, physicians have reported that a minimum of 25 women – heterosexual females – have undergone virgin births by making use of IVF treatments to get pregnant.
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The other increasingly popular option was for women to have their eggs frozen, in the hope of finding a partner later. But campaigners say the welfare of the child should be paramount.
