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So This Alabama Embryo Decision Kills IVF And Embraces Fertile Brittany, Eh? Not So Fast…
Alright, let’s start this one with some personal context. My wife and I did IVF twice. If you are unfamiliar with “IVF” is, it means “in-vitro fertilization,” and basically what happens is you spend 14 or so days injecting shots into your wife’s ass, and that creates a bunch of eggs at a specific time. (I am going very high level right now.) They extract a bunch of eggs with a pipette-type device. Those eggs go in a petri dish. Then, a dude jerks off into a cup. They take the sperm from the cup and the eggs in the dish, and they combine them and see if they reach 5-to-7 days. If so, they attempt to take those embryos and implant them in the woman, and see if the embryo “takes” or “keeps,” in which case she is pregnant. It’s basically fertilization outside the uterus/womb, K?
We did it twice and went 0-for-2. It’s pretty sad and disheartening and the whole thing sucks. I’ve sat in a lot of IVF waiting rooms and they’re not fun places and full humanity is on display therein:
