ABSTRACT
This chapter contrasts the ways in which the physicianscientist developing in vitro fertilization sees the world and the way women experience it. It challenges the truth of what the king sees. The king sees, not only that women have be mothers, but that the way to make infertile women mothers is through the use of such technologies as in vitro fertilization. The IUD can also impair fertility by bringing on Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) which sometimes damages the reproductive organs. The risk of contracting PID is four to nine times higher in women with an IUD than in those without it. The vast majority to women who go through IVF programs do not come away with a baby. The women Burton interviewed described the depression and grieving they experienced at failed IVF attempts. In addition to the poking and prodding involved in IVF treatment, women are also injected with powerful hormones.
