IVF: Implications Post-Dobbs

Approximately 9% of all married women and all married men, respectively, aged 15 to 49, experienced some form of infertility between 2015 and 2019. Between 2012 and 2021, the number of assisted reproductive technology (“ART) processes, like in vitro fertilization (“IVF”), more than doubled. In 2021, parents who underwent ART treatments helped facilitate 97,128 babies in total, equivalent to 1 in every 42 babies born in the United States. ART processes involve retrieving a woman's eggs from her ovaries, combining them with a male's sperm in a laboratory, and returning the newly created zygotes, to the woman's body or donating them to another woman where they mature into an embryo. This process does not always occur concurrently. Embryo freezing, also known as cryopreservation, freezes and stores fertilized eggs for later implantation using an ART process like IVF.