Lauren Dunn is the executive editor of the NBC News Medical Unit.
After Alabama’s state Supreme Court ruling on IVF, doctors are warning that women using in vitro fertilization and their babies could face major health risks — and young cancer patients could lose the chance to build a future family — if fertility clinics stop using frozen embryos. “That is a possible reality,” said Dr. Irene Dimitriadis, a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist at the Mass General Fertility Center in Boston.
” Multiple babies born prematurely face serious risks like blindness, damage to the bowels and other long-term disabilities, Jungheim said. Mothers pregnant with multiples usually need to have a cesarean section. “Putting that kind of stress on the body of the mother, we’re just learning about what that can do later in life to her,” she added. Doctors say freezing embryos also gives a woman’s body time to recover before an embryo is implanted.
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