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Simone Collins: IVF, Embryo Selection, Dating on the Spectrum, and Pronatalism — #34

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The Cost of IVF

"I feel like there's also this sort of cultural adverse incentive that makes IVF into something scarier and more cumbersome," she says. An egg retrieval cycle is mostly just a series of ramping up different meds, going in for blood testing regularly; transvaginal ultrasounds to check the sides of the follicles being stimulated by the hormones. "It means usually twice daily injections, but all but one of them during an egg retrieval cycle are, I think, a lot of people are going to be able to get to the hospital."

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