Commentary | Patience Sunne
On Tracking the Fate of IVF Babies, States Should Lead Where the CDC Has Failed
Two years ago, the Heritage Foundation analyzed the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) in vitro fertilization (IVF) data and found that approximately 4.1 million embryos are created via IVF each year, while the CDC reports that only 97,000 babies are born as a result of IVF annually. What's even more shocking is that, although the CDC publishes data on the number of IVF cycles per year and live births as a result of those cycles, it does not publish or even track the fates of over four million unaccounted-for embryos each year. This is unacceptable.
