What Next: The Future of IVF Post-Roe

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🗓️ 14 May 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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On this bonus episode from our friends at Slate's What Next podcast: As the country awaits a final decision on whether the Supreme Court will overturn Roe. v Wade, fertility doctors are sounding the alarm about what that could mean for the future procedures like IVF. Guests: Dr. Natalie Crawford, OBGYN and reproductive endocrinologist at Fora Fertility in Austin, Texas. Emily, an IVF patient in West Virginia. Emily asked Slate to withhold her last name so she could speak freely about her fertility treatments. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Elena Schwartz, Carmel Delshad, Anna Rubanova, and Sam Kim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	Hey mom and dad are fighting listeners.
0:30.0	We wanted to bring you a special bonus episode
0:33.0	from our friends at what next.
0:35.0	It's a fascinating conversation about how the future
0:38.0	of fertility treatments could be affected
0:40.0	if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade.
0:42.0	I'll let host Mary Harris take it from here.
0:49.0	Earlier this week, our producer Carmel called up a woman
0:52.0	we agreed to simply call Emily.
0:55.0	So I'm wondering if we could start off with you
0:57.0	just introducing yourself and a little bit of your story.
1:00.0	Yeah, so my name is Emily.
1:03.0	I'll go ahead and give the reference that I'm from West Virginia
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