In the days following this decision, my community—infertility and cancer patients in the privacy of exam rooms here in California, the clinical team caring for them, scientists and policy makers working on innovations to improve fertility care, and medical trainees drawn to reproductive justice and learning advocacy—expressed dismay, fear, confusion and outrage.
IVF shows the potential for eggs and sperm to join and grow through various stages of embryo development. But it also shows why human reproduction is biologically inefficient; decades of research reveal that not every egg successfully fertilizes with sperm, not every fertilized egg continues to develop into a blastocyst embryo, not every blastocyst embryo implants in the uterus to grow into a fetus.
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