Featured in the AllPaths Magazine, 2025 Volume 1
by Danielle Day
A woman and her husband sit across from an older man in a white coat. A large wooden desk stands between them.
The doctor looks at the couple and says, “I don’t believe this will cause any damage, but it’s also worth saying, I don’t believe this will result in a baby for you. I don’t think there’s much chance of success – I think it’s important that you know that.”
Husband, looking at the doctor, then his wife, says “I don’t understand. So why should we do it?”
Wife, addressing her husband, replies, “Because it might mean that others do have babies.”
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“Joy: the Birth of IVF” is a cinematic portrayal of the discovery of one of the foundational assistive reproductive technologies. It is in this story that we meet two distinctive groups of heroes, without whom we would not have about 12 million people on this earth.