[Globe and Mail-Canada] Carolynne Wheeler - Israel is home to one of the world's most aggressive, state-supported fertility drives, spurred in equal parts by biblical calls to reproduce and the demographic realities brought on by a country trying to prop up its birthrate against a booming and sometimes hostile population next door. Every Israeli woman, regardless of marital status, is entitled to have two children through in-vitro fertilization, no matter how many courses of treatment it takes, and Israel performs more IVF than anywhere else in the world.
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