What Next: The Future of IVF Post-Roe
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:57.0 | Earlier this week, our producer Carmel called up a woman we agreed to simply call Emily. |
| 1:02.5 | So I'm wondering if we could start off with you just introducing yourself and a little bit of your |
| 1:06.7 | story. Yeah, so my name is Emily. I'll go ahead and give the reference that I'm from West Virginia |
| 1:14.3 | because I do think that kind of affects the conversation and walls that get made in my state. |
| 1:19.5 | Emily's a mom before she had her son, she was a science teacher. We're concealing her identity |
| 1:24.2 | so she can speak honestly about her fertility treatments. Actually, my husband's family doesn't |
| 1:29.9 | know about all of it yet because they are very uncomfortable with the IVF process and just a |
| 1:38.5 | couple of years ago, we have kind of mentioned it in passing and they let us know that they had a |
| 1:44.5 | problem with it. So Emily's in laws are uncomfortable with IVF because they believe fertility treatments |
| 1:50.5 | are playing God that life begins at conception. The debates a lot of Americans are having about |
| 1:56.1 | abortion these days. Emily's been having them within her own family for years. And now Emily sees |
| 2:02.7 | her in laws ideas reflected on the Supreme Court. What was your reaction when you first heard about |
| 2:11.3 | the draft opinion leak? The first thing I told my husband actually was, well I'm glad we started |
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