Editing Assisted reproductive technology (section)

=== General ===
With ART, the process of [[sexual intercourse]] is bypassed and fertilization of the [[oocyte]]s occurs in the laboratory environment (i.e., [[in vitro fertilization]]).{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

In the US, the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC) defines ART to include "all fertility treatments in which both eggs and sperm are handled. In general, ART procedures involve surgically removing eggs from a woman's ovaries, combining them with sperm in the laboratory, and returning them to the woman's body or donating them to another woman." According to CDC, "they do not include treatments in which only sperm are handled (i.e., intrauterine—or artificial—insemination) or procedures in which a woman takes medicine only to stimulate egg production without the intention of having eggs retrieved."<ref>{{cite web|title=What is Assisted Reproductive Technology? {{!}} Reproductive Health {{!}} CDC|url=https://www.cdc.gov/art/whatis.html|publisher=CDC|date=November 14, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171101183209/https://www.cdc.gov/art/whatis.html|archive-date=November 1, 2017}}</ref>

In Europe, ART also excludes artificial insemination and includes only procedures where oocytes are handled.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=European IVF-Monitoring Consortium (EIM) for the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology|last2=Calhaz-Jorge|first2=C.|display-authors=et al|last10=Wyns|title=Assisted reproductive technology in Europe, 2012: results generated from European registers by ESHRE.|journal=Human Reproduction (Oxford, England)|date=August 2016|volume=31|issue=8|pages=1638–52|pmid=27496943|doi=10.1093/humrep/dew151|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sorenson|first1=Corinna|title=ART in the European Union|journal=Euro Observer Euro Observer|date=Autumn 2006|volume=8|issue=4|url=http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/80371/EuroObserver8_4.pdf?ua=1|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129022850/http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/80371/EuroObserver8_4.pdf?ua=1|archive-date=2016-11-29}}</ref>

The [[World Health Organization]] (WHO), also defines ART this way.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Zegers-Hochschild|first1=F|display-authors=et al|last2=for the International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technology and the World Health Organization|title=International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technology (ICMART) and the World Health Organization (WHO) revised glossary of ART terminology, 2009.|journal=Fertility and Sterility|date=November 2009|volume=92|issue=5|pages=1520–4|pmid=19828144|url=https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/infertility/art_terminology2.pdf?ua=1|doi=10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.09.009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129024154/http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/infertility/art_terminology2.pdf?ua=1|archive-date=2016-11-29}}</ref>