IVF: What to know about the process of in vitro fertilization

(20 May 2025)
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ARCHIVE: Rome – 24 March 2004
1. Screen showing egg cell while being fertilized through IVF

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Lexington, Kentucky – 25 April 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Ungar, The Associated Press:
“IVF accounted for more than 95,000 births in 2023, nearly 3% of all births in the U.S. that year.”

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ARCHIVE: New York – 3 October 2013
3. Looking through microscope next to screen showing embryo

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Lexington, Kentucky – 25 April 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Ungar, The Associated Press:
“In vitro fertilization has been around for decades, helping people who face infertility have babies. So, how does it work?”

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ARCHIVE: New York – 3 October 2013
5. Close of screen showing eggs being extracted by technician

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ARCHIVE: Kyiv – 31 January 2023
6. Various of fertility laboratory

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Lexington, Kentucky – 25 April 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Ungar, The Associated Press:
“Patients inject hormones to trigger ovulation so they can make multiple eggs. Then the doctor retrieves those eggs, and combines them in a lab dish with sperm from a partner or a donor. After that, the embryo is transferred into the uterus.”

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ARCHIVE: New York – 3 October 2013
8. Tank storing eggs

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Lexington, Kentucky – 25 April 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Ungar, The Associated Press:
"Often, the process creates more than one embryo. Extra ones are generally frozen and stored for future use and can be safely preserved for a decade or more."

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ARCHIVE: Fort Myers, Florida – 2 October 2018
10. Close of specimens being removed from tank
11. Mid of nitrogen tank lid being opened

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Lexington, Kentucky – 25 April 2025
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Ungar, The Associated Press:
"It’s typical for IVF to take more than one cycle. That’s what can make it really expensive."

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ARCHIVE: New York – 3 October 2013
13. Lab technicians seated in front of microscopes

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Lexington, Kentucky – 25 April 2025
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Ungar, The Associated Press:
"And insurance coverage can be patchy. It depends on what type of health plan you have."

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ARCHIVE: Washington – 17 September 2024
15. STILL Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, left, accompanied by Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., right, speaks about the need to protect rights to in vitro fertilization (IVF)
16. STILL Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ., accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, left, and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., right, speaks about the need to protect rights to in vitro fertilization (IVF)

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Lexington, Kentucky – 25 April 2025
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Ungar, The Associated Press:
"Many couples consider IVF their best option for a family after other methods have failed, but not everyone supports IVF."

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ARCHIVE: Rome – 25 March 2025
18. Diagram showing the different states of an embryo, from cell to child

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ARCHIVE: London – 14 August 2013
19. Wide of monitor showing embryo, pan to close rear view of embryologist

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Lexington, Kentucky – 25 April 2025
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Ungar, The Associated Press:

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ARCHIVE: Brno, Czech Republic – 1 May 2013
21. Close zoom out of screen showing egg being injected with sperm in fertility laboratory

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ARCHIVE: New York – 3 October 2013
22. Close of embryos in petri dish

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