Chapter 6 & 7

1. Inefficacy- doctors in Egypt inflate their success rate to give high hopes to patients

1.1. Take home baby rate is actually 17%

1.2. ICSI is now seen as a hopeful opportunity for older women with low egg counts

2. Location- Egypt's geographical location and history of medical achievements makes it one of the most medically advanced countries in the middle east.

2.1. This explains why expatriates still continue to visit Egypt for IVF treatments on holiday

3. Religion- Muslim patients believe that it is God's will that will determine if the trials will be successful

4. Multiple gestation- one of the most problematic side effects of IVF. Women that are faced with this have selective abortion to lower the count of fetuses that were conceived

5. Effects of failed trials

5.1. Emotional turmoil

5.2. tension in the marriage

6. The patriarchal bargain

6.1. Women carry the burden of infertility when in reality 50% of the time the husbands are infertile, not the wives

6.2. patriarchal connectivity- conjugal love

7. Feminist arguments

7.1. The harsh and damaging side effects of hormone treatments are often overlooked and severely take a toll on women's health

7.2. Hormone treatments negatively effect men and women, but men are more reluctant to seek treatment than women are

7.2.1. Infertility in men often occur because of environment and poor habits, like smoking

7.3. hMg are extremely hard to find in Egypt, exposing yet another hurdle that couples have to face.