What: Becca Muir, a PhD student studying fertility care access, argues that it is discriminatory to keep women from getting IVF procedures because their BMI is “too high.” Muir writes that the BMI cutoffs can be arbitrary, ranging as widely as 35 to 45, and “these restrictions are not medically or ethically justified.”
Why it matters: As Muir notes, a “multitude of social, structural, and medical factors demonstrate that BMI limits are discriminatory,” conditions like PCOS cause weight gain in the first place, and male lifestyle characteristics are not considered, even though sperm DNA damage matters, too.
Source: NPR