ABSTRACT
Parenthood has become increasingly a matter of choice and planning, almost like the choice and planning involved in purchasing a new motor car; and this observation applies to the infertile as well as the fertile. Assisted conception has not only physical implications but psychological and, of course, familial and social, implications. Yet, if a woman does become obsessed, this sad state of affairs should not be attributed solely to her doctor or to medicine but must be located within the wider framework of her own psychological make-up and social conditions. In fact, all these conditions will by nature be mingled and inter-twined. Often there is a social pressure, in a wider sense, on the woman to have a child. The desire for a child is a deep-seated desire in the human heart. And the way in which it is satisfied calls for careful consideration.
