Personal Story: Infertility Is Not Failure By Holly Gregg

“I felt betrayed by my body, like less of a woman for being unable to do what it was designed to do. And I couldn’t believe I was really here, really in this place. We were at the end of the line in options to have a biological child” (Gregg 1). Some people or couples are unable to conceive their own child; for some it can be a huge setback in their lives. In the article, “Personal Story: Infertility Is Not Failure,” Holly Gregg explains how for three years she and her husband tired to have a child. They were faced with the reality that they could not have children. The only way they were going to have a child was through in vitro fertilization. Some people view in vitro fertilization as unethical and wrong for couples who are infertile, but …show more content…
Infertility can be the result of many different problems. However, there are many different solutions to the infertility problems. Women can maintain an uneven hormone balance. If there is an uneven hormone balance, then eggs cannot be created correctly. Problems in the ovulation process can occur where a woman’s body destroys the eggs she has created, or there can be cases where a woman’s fallopian tubes are dysfunctional. Surgery can cause a woman to be infertile. A woman can also have endometriosis, which causes tissue to grow in locations other than the uterus. Once this happens, the tissue would need to be surgically removed. Scar tissue could form and damage eggs, or even the sperm in males. Urine or cervical issues can cause infertility as well. These disorders and diseases can be caused because of many different reasons. Tumors are another reason women can become infertile. In some women, there is even an unexplainable reason she is infertile. These are known to be the hardest cases because those women have no …show more content…
Couple can take other routes to combating infertility such as adoption or surrogacy. Out of all the options a couple can choose, in vitro is the best choice. It is the one option where the mother can carry her own biological child. In vitro is the process of taking an egg from a woman, sperm from a man, and mixing the two together in a test tube. When the two are mixed together an embryo is formed. More than one embryo can be created at a time. Once the embryos are created, the parents and the doctor choose how many of the embryos should be implanted in the mother’s uterus. For the other embryos created, they can be destroyed or stored for a later