IVF: What a former patient in the South wants you to know

Patients who use in vitro fertilization to start a family want to demystify the process for the general public now that the future of the procedure is uncertain. This comes after a recent court ruling in Alabama that frozen embryos are “extrauterine children.”

Here & Now’s Celeste Headlee speaks with Belle Boggs who underwent IVF in North Carolina. She wrote a book about her experience in 2016 called “The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine and Motherhood.” Boggs’ physician, Dr. Steven Young, chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Duke University School of Medicine, also joins us.