The Science of Hope
Assisted reproduction helps nature along when the path to pregnancy seems anything but natural. It’s a world full of cutting-edge medical science, moral complexity and hope. According to the PBS Frontline program on Making Babies, the persistence of hope and rapid scientific change make for some very interesting lives.
Specialists in the field say that in as little as two decades, infertility may be a thing of the past.
“My belief is that in twenty years, no couple will be unable to have a baby…genetically,” Dr. Samuel Wood, an infertility doctor in San Diego, told Frontline “except for the few on the extremes of reproductive life.”
That doesn’t mean current procedures are hugely accurate. In fact, many infertile couples don’t find a solution to their conditions.
“It makes this field hard because you know with every case that you take on, there is at least as good a chance of failure as success,” says Dr. Mark Sauer, a specialist in male infertility at Columbia University, told the program. “There’s a heavy price, not just emotional, but also financial, that these couples have to pay to reach that point where they either walk away pregnant, or not.”
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