Joy: the story of IVF shows how women’s health and scientific contributions haven’t be taken seriously

By Pragya Agarwal, Visiting Professor of Social Inequities and Injustice, Loughborough University

Watching the Netflix film Joy has been a hugely emotional experience for me. The film is the story of the scientific endeavour to figure out in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) and the first baby to be born this way, Louise Joy Brown on 25 July 1978 at Oldham General Hospital in Manchester.

I went through many rounds of IVF myself, after encountering infertility after having my first child. Even as a feminist, it made me feel like a failure, and I faced it with confusion, shame and guilt, feeling very lonely in the process.…

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