The great delay: 33 years after the first 'test-tube' baby
July marked the 33rd birthday of the world's first 'test-tube' baby. Since then, four million babies have been born thanks to IVF. Many more have not. The treatment does not guarantee pregnancy and the side effects remain severe. Yet there is a brutal dishonesty. IVF is considered almost routine. Because women - and men — don't talk frankly about their fertility struggles, we continue to get a skewed message...