{"id":306709,"date":"2024-02-13T08:40:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=306709"},"modified":"2024-02-13T10:21:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T16:21:18","slug":"ivf-pioneer-slams-modern-day-fertility-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ivf-pioneer-slams-modern-day-fertility-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"IVF pioneer slams the modern-day fertility industry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ren\u00e9 Frydman is well-known in France for his role as a pioneer in the assisted reproductive technology (ART) field. He was behind the birth of the first French baby born via in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in 1986, and also created the country’s first “savior sibling<\/a>” \u2014 a highly controversial practice \u2014 in 2011. Frydman is, without a doubt, an ardent support of ART and IVF… but even he has become dismayed at how far the fertility industry has fallen.<\/p>\n

Frydman recently spoke with Le Figaro<\/a> about his new book, “La Tyrannie de la Reproduction,” or a “tyranny of reproduction.” In it, he warns that the ART landscape has gone too far, with people willing to do anything and pay anything in order to obtain a child.<\/p>\n

“All this builds the belief that ‘everything is possible’ thanks to science, and imposes a weight, that of reproduction at all costs. It\u2019s this ‘everything is possible’ that I try to counterbalance in my book,” he said. “Because I have seen many couples exhaust themselves in this hellish quest for a child. People who have no chance persist, resorting to heavy and exhausting techniques whose merits can be contested. I wanted to provide some food for thought to say that there is not just one possible route. How many times have I heard a sigh of relief from patients to whom I announced that there was no more hope?”<\/p>\n