Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

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

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par 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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