00:00:00.000Modern women are waiting far too long to have children.
00:00:03.700In 2025, we have women entertaining the thought of having kids in their late 30s to mid 40s.
00:00:11.180In a quest to be a boss babe and have it all, studies show that a woman's chance of getting pregnant drops to 20% after 35 and 5% after 40.
00:00:21.120Do any of the stats about infertility and age matter to women?
00:00:26.720They are going to keep going to high-priced institutions to get degrees that no one cares about, to jobs that aren't going to make them any money, to put themselves into a bunch of debt that they're going to have to pay off the rest of their lives.
00:00:39.960So what do these women turn to when they've smashed into the wall and they want to have a kid and they're having fertility problems?
00:04:55.380Now, not long after Ye's posts, online users and Beyonce's dedicated fan base, Beehive,
00:05:03.880quickly rushed to clap back at the notorious rapper.
00:05:08.140One user joked about Kanye West and Jay-Z's iconic album, Watch the Throne, saying,
00:05:14.020Don't guess, Watch the Throne 2 isn't coming out.
00:05:22.540A fan wrote, Kanye and his years-long obsession with Beyonce referencing Kanye West's iconic stunt.
00:05:29.060At 2009, VMAs where the rapper jumped on stage after Taylor Swift bested Beyonce, saying,
00:05:35.260Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you. I'll let you finish.
00:05:38.080But Beyonce has one of the greatest, or has one of the best videos of all time.
00:05:42.600Somebody take all of his devices, please.
00:05:45.900Another joked, Beyonce letting every single person know she knows to stop working in any shape or form with Kanye and it's over.
00:05:54.100Other mentioned the recent conspiracy theories that linked Beyonce and Jay-Z to Diddy's corrupt use of power in the entertainment industry.
00:06:24.960Is this, is that why we don't see them in public?
00:06:28.040Remember, Beyonce and Jay-Z had their twins through IVF.
00:06:32.420Beyonce was 29 when she had Blue Ivy and 35 when she had her set of twins, Sir and Rumi.
00:06:39.320Too many modern women are choosing IVF as a family planning method.
00:06:44.300They are relying on an industry lightly regulated to give them a child.
00:06:48.960They are foregoing building relationships with men and marriage for career and hopefully having enough money and resources to pay for something as expensive as IVF.
00:06:59.680It is only recently that we see and hear about some of the horror stories that some couples have gone through IVF have experienced.
00:07:09.020I saw this article that tells multiple stories about complications that people have experienced with IVF.
00:07:51.240Murray, now 38, has ensured multiple daily injections, frequent blood draws, bouts of nausea and exhaustion, a first embryo transfer that didn't take, and finally pregnancy and labor.
00:08:03.120Then, a DNA test revealed that the Georgia Fertility Clinic Murray had used had implanted a different couple's embryo in her uterus.
00:08:13.620After raising the baby for five months, Murray, heartbroken, handed him over to the biological parents.
00:08:21.540So, she gave birth to a child that wasn't hers.
00:08:27.760We all met in court, and the decision was made, she said.
00:08:30.840I walked in, a mom and a child and a baby who loved me and was mine and was attached to me, and I walked out of the building with an empty stroller, and they left with my son.
00:08:56.720We, we're all different races of women, and not all, I'm speaking in generalities, we just have different tools of how we're crazy, right?
00:09:05.620You know, like, you see the black women in the news, and not all, not all, but like, you know, they're throwing hands or whatever, and you see that a lot, right?
00:09:14.340White women, we just sign up for dumb shit.
00:09:17.720So, like, if you see a kid that's transitioned, that's getting transitioned, right, guarantee, it's a white woman doing it.
00:09:25.480If you see, like, a kid, like, I'm gonna raise my kid non-binary, it's white, like, we have the money for those gender clinics or whatever it is.
00:09:34.320And the IVF stuff, I do really see a lot of white women doing this.
00:09:40.660Now, again, I'm not saying other nationalities don't, or races don't, but I can just speak from where I grew up, okay?
00:09:48.940Okay, so she sued the clinic last month.
00:09:51.480Although many cases, like Murray's, are thought to be rare, an NBC News analysis of federal and state legal databases found more than 300 lawsuits filed from 2019 to 2024,
00:10:06.040alleging that embryos, eggs, or sperm has been lost, destroyed, or swapped.
00:10:10.500The suits were filed against fertility clinics or companies involved in the IVF process across 19 states.
00:10:17.700And the majority, at least 260, involved alleged allegations of product or equipment failures.
00:10:25.840Some legal experts say that the cases are, in part, a product of the industry's rapid growth.
00:10:32.200The number of babies born via assisted reproductive technology, which includes IVF, more than quadrupled from 1996 to 2022.
00:10:41.380The number of fertility procedures increased more than sixfold.
00:10:44.920Market researchers estimated the U.S. fertility industry was worth $5.7 billion last year.
00:10:52.780IVF isn't governed by the same regulations that hold other medical practitioners accountable for mistakes or safety violations.
00:11:00.980Three legal experts said, for example, although more than half of states require hospitals to report serious, avoidable medical errors to regulators,
00:11:09.880those requirements don't apply to IVF clinics.
00:11:12.580And embryology labs aren't subject to federal inspections the way, say, blood banks are.
00:11:20.500Instead, most are inspected by accredited organizations.
00:11:25.880What's more, there is no established legal claim pertaining to lost or swapped embryos,
00:11:33.320like there is for medical malpractice cases involving errors by health care providers.
00:11:38.940So, IVF patients have a hard time seeking redress after something goes wrong.
00:11:44.860Few of the lawsuits in NBC's news analysis have gone to trial.
00:11:49.360And of those that have been resolved, most were settled or dismissed.
00:11:52.980Adam Wolf, an attorney representing Murray, says he expects to see more cases like hers because, in his view,
00:11:59.740the U.S. lacks sufficient state and federal regulations governing fertility clinics and labs.