Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are procedures used to treat infertility in which both eggs and sperm are manipulated outside the body. ART procedures involve surgically removing eggs from a woman’s ovaries, combining them with sperm in the laboratory, then returning the fertilized eggs or embryos to the woman’s body or donating them to another woman.

Today over one percent of all babies born in the United States are conceived using ART procedures such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), egg donation, … More