Op-ed questioning for-profit fertility clinics and companies

[Anonymous]

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/fertility-clinics-are-being-taken-over-profit-companies-selling-false-ncna1145671

The entire industry has been run over by for-profit companies. Their advertising claims are not regulated, there are no mandatory reports of laboratory accidents, and doctors become millionaires yet hide behind the sanctimony of helping women become moms. The for-profit clinics and companies prey on women's desperation and they know it. From its origins until now, fertility care has involved massive experimentation on women.

There is no federal body providing adequate regulation of the U.S. fertility industry. There is minimal state regulation. There are no independent advocates standing up for women's interests. Resolve is bought and paid for, serving primarily as a tool to open up "markets" for the industry through insurance expansion.

An entire industry chasing dollars because women are screwed by capitalism is just disgusting. And highlighting in interviews and ads that your business is "booming" because women are scared due to the pandemic and want to freeze eggs is also just disgusting.

You can actually treat medical conditions and NOT make huge profits from it. There are university-affiliated fertility centers that are non-profit. It's past time for a rigorous expose of this entire industry that will lead to comprehensive regulation of it.

[Anonymous]

Harvard Business School - case study on the commercialization of fertility treatments.

Debra Spar emphasizes that the U.S. has never treated cancer treatments as cavalierly as the U.S. currently does with respect to fertility-related "innovations."

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/the-challenges-of-commercializing-fertility

[Anonymous]

https://www.today.com/health/lack-oversight-regulations-may-lead-ivf-mishaps-t157872

Law professors have been arguing that no other field of medicine is as unregulated as the fertility "industry" is.