Ivf Research Paper

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What is IVF and why do some women choose it? IVF means fertilization outside the body and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2015) IVF is the “most common and most effective method of assisted reproductive technologies”. Assisted reproductive technologies have been helping women to have children since the first child was born in England in 1978 (Eley, 2015). Louise Brown was the first child born under secrecy with the help in vitro fertilization (IVF). IVF has come an extremely long way since with over 5 million children being born using IVF (Lewis, 2014). Each woman chooses this for different reasons; some have no other option due to medical conditions causing infertility, unexplained infertility, genetic disorders