In the aftermath of Alabama Supreme Court's in vitro fertilization ruling, the state's reproductive-age women with cancer, who face a high likelihood of future infertility, "are losing the standard-of-care option to build a family following their necessary medical treatments," said Northwestern Medicine fertility preservation expert Dr. Kara Goldman.
"Reproductive-age patients with cancer have few effective options to preserve their future fertility, and it is unfathomable to take one such option away from this already vulnerable population," said Goldman, an associate professor of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and director of fertility preservation at Northwestern Medicine. "A profound consequence of this ruling - a ruling based merely on religious belief and without scientific merit -is an unacceptably high risk of infertility for patients with cancer and other fertility-threatening conditions."
