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I Am an IVF Survivor: Why Being Pro-IVF is Not Pro-Life

I was conceived in a petri dish and survived. On a good day, 30-50% of embryos make it to the implantation stage, also known as the blastocyst stage.[i] Of those embryos that are implanted, 45% flourish into a pregnancy, resulting in a live birth.[ii]Optimistically, a successfully fertilized egg (embryo) has roughly a 13.5-22.5% chance of being born.If I had been just outside that slim percentile, along with my other unborn siblings, IVF (in vitro fertilization) doctors would have reduced my dea