Vitro Fertilization Facts and Issues

Despite the fact that 44 years have passed since the birth of the first "test-tube baby," that about 2% of children are born as a result of artificial insemination, and the income from these operations is approaching the $10 billion mark per year, the prospects for the development of the fertility industry are still vague.

Officially and at the legislative level, in vitro fertilization is not prohibited in any state. However, there are several activist movements all over the country that advocate the assignment of personality rights to embryos and even to ova. The state also supports the rejection of abortions; for example, the Georgia Department of Revenue has established a payment of $3,000 to each woman with an embryo whose heart is beating.

All this threatens the functioning of the centers of the fertility industry. In this article, we will try to understand what are the risks of Vitro fertilization and what awaits IVF clinics in the near future.  

Possible Risks

If the proposal to assign personality status to embryos is adopted at the legislative level, then in vitro fertilization centers will face many legal difficulties.

At the moment, the IVF process consists of the following steps:

• Doctors prepare cells that are capable of fertilization with the help of medications.
• Doctors collect ova and inseminate them with sperm.
• Then specialists identify which of the inseminations are the healthiest.
• After the choice is made, the embryo or several are placed in the uterus.
• The remaining embryos are frozen indefinitely.

Potential problems are related to the question, will the situation be considered a criminal offense if the frozen embryo does not survive? If the law on the protection of personal rights comes into force, doctors will no longer be able to choose healthy embryos and will not have the right to throw away or freeze the rest.

The Future of IVF

According to the court decision in the case "Roe vs. Wade," every woman has a right to terminate a pregnancy at any time before the embryo becomes viable; this threshold is 28 weeks. If this law were in force now, the fertility industry would not be at risk; however, 49 years after its operation, this law was repealed. Now each state sets its own abortion deadlines, and they are changing. In some states, abortions have recently been banned at any stage of pregnancy.

The legislative landscape regarding abortions is constantly updating, which means that the situation for IVF clinics remains unstable. However, at the moment, while activists' attempts to establish state control over embryos remain unsuccessful, the fertility industry is not in danger.

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