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The women are seeking fertility treatment for a variety of reasons. They've had a couple miscarriages and they're pushing 40.

They don't have fallopian tubes or they need

sperm. One woman has a diagnosis that's like a metaphor from feminist sci-fi, a

uterus with a single horn like a unicorn.

All of them wind up at the Fertility Clinic at Yale University.

A couple of the women choose this clinic because they work at Yale,

and that's what the Yale Health Plan covers. Others go to Yale

on the recommendation of their doctors. But in Connecticut you don't even really

need the recommendation. Yale Medicine, it's a blue chip medical brand.

You know, Yale's just a huge name and you just think anything that has anything to do with Yale is going to be, you know, the best of the best.

It's really not close to our house. It's not where I would have gone. But we figured, you know, another

doctor from another hospital said this is the best you can get. And you want, of course you want that. To some other women the clinic seems to live up to its

billing. They like their doctors, feel cared for by them. That man is an angel, one of the women tells me. He is by far the best

doctor I've ever had. Others are not happy at the clinic from the start. It's things like

feeling like a number or issues with communication.

There's a lot to communicate. You don't know how hard fertility treatment is until you get

into it. And once you start it in one place it can be difficult to go somewhere else.

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