IVF Patients Struggle to Get Recourse for Lost Embryos (Correct)

March 5, 2025, 10:45 AM UTCUpdated: March 6, 2025, 7:16 PM UTC

Every year, thousands of people struggling with infertility or facing health complications turn to fertility treatments and assisted reproductive technology in the fervent hope of becoming parents.

The average in-vitro fertilization patient will spend thousands of dollars and many emotionally draining months freezing eggs or embryos before even reaching the implantation stage of the process.

Though the process doesn’t guarantee parenthood, no one undertakes the journey thinking their embryos will be destroyed by faulty technology.

Last year, scores of hopeful parents were faced with that upsetting reality after CooperSurgical Inc., a reproductive technology product maker, recalled liquid solution used to ...

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