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Success Rates
Success rates for IVF vary depending on a number of factors, including the reason for infertility, where you're having the procedure done, and your age. The CDC compile national statistics for all assisted reproductive technology procedures performed in the U.S. The statistics group together all procedures that constitute assisted reproduction technology (ART), including IVF, GIFT and ZIFT, although IVF is by far the most common. The most recent report from 2000 found:- Successful pregnancy was achieved in 30.7% of all cycles.
- About 69% of the cycles carried out did not produce a pregnancy.
- Less than 1% of all cycles resulted in an ectopic pregnancy.
- About 11% of these pregnancies involved multiple fetuses.
- About 83% of pregnancies resulted in a live birth.
- About 17% of pregnancies resulted in miscarriage, induced abortion, or a stillbirth.
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if successful pregnancy was aciheved in 30% of all cycles, then 70% of all cycles resulted in no pregnancy, meaning the embryos died.
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To increase the chances of pregnancy, most IVF experts recommend transferring three or four embryos at a time.
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so those cycles that resulted in no pregnancy could have lost up to 4 embryos.
what i want to know is, why isn't the pro-life community concerned with tihs?