Opinion: IVF bans like Alabama’s could cost the lives of children already born
In the wake of the Alabama court ruling, debates about “personhood” must remember the real lives not only conceived but also saved by IVF.
When my wife, Laurie, completed her ninth in vitro fertilization cycle in the spring of 2000, we had more than 150 fertilized embryos in frozen storage at the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at the NewYork Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
We were not stockpiling them for later use. At the time, our son Henry was 5. At birth, he had been diagnosed with a fatal genetic disease, Fanconi anemia. We were using IVF together with preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in hopes of having a healthy baby who could also save Henry’s life with a cord blood transplant.
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