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
Carrillo, 46, had been told by doctors years ago that she was infertile.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 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
A hysterectomy would leave Emily infertile and prompt the menopause, which in turn could increase her risk of osteoporosis, heart disease and dementia.
From BBC • Nov. 16, 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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