Risk, Uncertainty, and Anguish as Families Navigate IVF Bans | Sojourners

Risk, Uncertainty, and Anguish as Families Navigate IVF Bans

Grandma Audrey O’Neil, watches over 7-month-old Mason Deleeuw as his parents Peter and Meredith Deleeuw of Huntsville, lobby lawmakers for support of legislation safeguarding in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments at the Alabama State House in Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 28, 2024. Mason, was conceived after five rounds of IVF treatments for the Deleeuwes. REUTERS/Julie Bennett

The waiting room of a fertility clinic was one of the most sacred places Elizabeth Wanczak had ever experienced. Most of the people sitting around her had weathered trauma and grief like hers — stories of repeated miscarriage, medical catastrophe, and what felt like endless longing for a baby that had not yet come. And yet, she said, the presence of these people in the waiting room signaled hope. They had not yet given up.

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