infertile
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Tens of thousands of people, including infertile and same-sex couples, have had babies through the technological advances of in vitro fertilization and the willingness of surrogates to carry those children.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
On Wednesday, both Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Tennessee Solicitor General Matthew Rice suggested that gender-affirming hormone treatment renders infertile people who are assigned female at birth.
From Slate • Dec. 6, 2024
The Indian government also opposed the couple’s petition, saying that surrogacy laws in India were meant to assist infertile couples or women, not people who wanted to have a grandchild.
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2024
Vance wouldn't even apologize to the unhappily infertile.
From Salon • Aug. 5, 2024
Using linkage analysis, geneticists could even trace an actual configuration of genes that evolved to make the progeny infertile.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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