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“The women’s movement thus had played a crucial role in systematically campaigning against hazardous contraceptives, coercive population policies and sex selective abortion. However, there had not been systematic engagement of the movement with Assisted Reproductive Technologies87 making our understanding of these technologies and their implication on women inadequate. It is important to understand the context in which these technologies are used, uses/abuses to which they are put to and the implications that these have on women’s health and lives. This is because, where at one level there is unavailability of necessary medical technologies, at the other level there is over medicalization. What becomes fundamental for the women’s movement is to question the social stigma associated with infertility. But simultaneously also to deglamourise these technologies by bringing in the real picture of low success rate, side effects of the hormonal drugs that are used in the treatment and anguish of women undergoing treatment. Given the pace at which these technologies are invading lives of women, these issues cannot be left unattended by the ongoing women’s movement of the country.” “Assisted Reproductive Technologies87 making our understanding of these technologies and their implication on women inadequate.” PLEASE-before the judgemental and hysterically paranoid condemnation (over medicalisation) of ART let there be a minimum understanding of the technology and the real causes of infertility and the effects of infertility on the lives of women and men. There is nothing glamourous about ART or the infertility it treats. Media reports on ART are full of misinformation,moralistic judgement,bias, ridicule ,denial of the medical realities behind an inability to concieve in the vast majority of cases, and blatant Victim-blame of the patients and demonization of both patients and the medical professionals involved. The pain caused by infertility, however, is not restricted to ‘Social stigma’. The longing for having a baby goes deeper than worrying about what society thinks. A success rate of 20-45% per cycle is a definite improvement over a 0% chance of natural conception in most cases. Side effects of the drugs are easy to bear compared to the emotional pain of infertility and the physical pain of some of the conditions that cause it. ART did not invade our lives. Infertility did. We embrace the technology with the grateful thought that at least it gives us some hope and more options than previous generations of women had.

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