The Future of IVF Post-Roe
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🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:03.0 | Just wanted to give a special welcome to all of our new listeners from over at Spotify. |
| 0:07.8 | Yeah, we see you guys. |
| 0:09.4 | Welcome. |
| 0:10.4 | And just make sure you go and click that follow button. |
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| 0:17.5 | You won't miss a thing. |
| 0:19.1 | All right. |
| 0:19.7 | On with the show. |
| 0:26.4 | Okay. day out. You won't miss a thing. All right, on with a show. Earlier this week, our producer Carmel called up a woman. We agreed to simply call Emily. |
| 0:31.7 | So I'm wondering if we could start off with you just introducing yourself and a little bit of your |
| 0:36.1 | story. Yeah. So my name is Emily. |
| 0:40.0 | I'll go ahead and give the reference that I'm from West Virginia because I do think that kind |
| 0:44.9 | affects the conversation and laws that get made in my state. Emily's a mom. Before she had her son, |
| 0:50.8 | she was a science teacher. We're concealing her identity so she can speak honestly about her fertility treatments. |
| 0:57.0 | Actually, my husband's family doesn't know about all of it yet because they are very uncomfortable with the IVF process. |
| 1:06.5 | And just a couple of years ago, we had kind of mentioned it in passing, and they let us know that they had a problem with it. |
| 1:15.9 | Emily's in-laws are uncomfortable with IVF because they believe fertility treatments are playing God, that life begins at conception. |
| 1:23.8 | The debates a lot of Americans are having about abortion these days, Emily's been having them within her own family for years. And now, Emily sees her in-laws' ideas reflected on the Supreme Court. |
| 1:38.4 | What was your reaction when you first heard about the draft opinion leak? |
| 1:44.9 | The first thing I told my husband actually was, well, I'm glad we started this now, because |
| 1:49.4 | it's been something we've gone back and forth on, and I mean, like, we had to get alone |
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