074. Recent IVF Issues Featured In The Media And A Brief Glimpse At The Scepticism Around IVF When It First Arrived On The Scene

History of IVF And The Current Issues This episode was recorded in late July 2018 but was published in early September 2018. In this episode, Prof talks about current issues in the media. He walks through a brief history of IVF and controversies before it was widely embraced. Prof talks about the resistance from the church and even from within the profession. When Prof first got into IVF it was 1985 and there were barely a few thousand babies born via IVF. Today that number is over 7,000,000! The odds of success have gone from 5% to 10% per month, in the beginning; to 35% to 40% per month today.