Latest NewsWhy we’re actually fighting over a medical procedure that allows the infertile to have children AlanJuly 8, 2024 Not long ago, in vitro fertilization — the medical process by which human sperm and ovum are united in clinical conditions outside a woman’s body and later implanted, giving the otherwise childless a chance at having a child — would have met scant resistance in the chambers of political power. conceptionIVFOpinionUnited StatesUS Senate