The Fertility Institutes

The Fertility Institutes

The birth of Louise Brown through in vitro fertilization (IVF) in 1978, dramatically increased the hope of clinical alternatives for the sterile couple. Nowadays, new techniques related to assisted reproduction are rapidly evolving. Together with a new hope for sterile couples, this method raises a large number of ethical and moral questions that ethics, scientists, theologians and legislators around the world now discuss. 

This booklet will help you understand assisted reproduction techniques such as IVF and Gameto Intratubar Transfer (GIFT), which, since 1978, have become accepted medical treatments for sterility. Many couples who have exhausted traditional clinical and surgical sterility treatments can find the best hope for pregnancy in these new techniques. Through these procedures, women with irreversible sterility have given birth to healthy babies.