The darker side of infertility
By Pat Duggins,
Alabama Public Radio
| 06. 27. 2025
PAT DUGGINS-- If I were to say, ‘man, have you seen the price of eggs these days?’ You're probably thinking, Oh, he's talking about inflation and the price of groceries and how it became an issue in the presidential race and how nothing has changed, and so on and so on. That's not what I mean. I'm not talking about the kinds of eggs that build omelets. I mean the kinds of eggs that build families. The Alabama Supreme Court created a political shock wave last year when it declared that frozen human embryos were children. The legal case involved people looking to start families through in vitro fertilization. These couples allege that their eggs were destroyed. Some moms and dads to be like these, use their own fertilized eggs. Others have reproductive issues that require donated eggs, and there's a whole industry in the US to supply them. It's a story of money, racism and a process that can reportedly harm both female egg donors and the children that result. Diane Tober is in the middle of this issue...
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