The Weekend Intelligence: The hope and the heartbreak of IVF

The Weekend Intelligence: The hope and the heartbreak of IVF

In our second episode of The Weekend Intelligence, The Economist correspondents Catherine Brahic and Sacha Nauta tell a different story about fertility treatment. A story about the pain, the hope and the despair that is paid for a life to be created. And a personal story about two women, over five years, whose lives followed parallel tracks in their quest for a baby.



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