Editing In vitro fertilisation (section)

===Industry corruption===
Robert Winston, professor of fertility studies at Imperial College London, had called the industry "corrupt" and "greedy" stating that "one of the major problems facing us in healthcare is that IVF has become a massive commercial industry," and that "what has happened, of course, is that money is corrupting this whole technology", and accused authorities of failing to protect couples from exploitation: "The regulatory authority has done a consistently bad job. It's not prevented the exploitation of people, it's not put out very good information to couples, it's not limited the number of unscientific treatments people have access to".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2007/may/31/medicineandhealth.health | location= London | work = The Guardian  | vauthors = Jha A | title=Winston: IVF clinics corrupt and greedy | date= 31 May 2007}}</ref> The IVF industry has been described as a market-driven construction of health, medicine and the human body.<ref>{{Cite book| vauthors = Dumit J |title=Drugs for life : how pharmaceutical companies define our health|date=2012|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-4860-3|location=Durham, NC|oclc=782252371}}</ref>

The industry has been accused of making unscientific claims, and distorting facts relating to infertility, in particular through widely exaggerated claims about how common infertility is in society, in an attempt to get as many couples as possible and as soon as possible to try treatments (rather than trying to conceive naturally for a longer time).{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} This risks removing infertility from its social context and reducing the experience to a simple biological malfunction, which not only ''can'' be treated through bio-medical procedures, but should be treated by them.<ref>{{cite conference | vauthors = Dietrich H | date = May 1986 | title = IVF: what can we do? | conference = Liberation or Loss? | location = Canberra }}</ref><ref name="pmid11649236">{{cite journal | vauthors = Warren MA | title = IVF and women's interests: an analysis of feminist concerns | journal = Bioethics | volume = 2 | issue = 1 | pages = 37–57 | date = January 1988 | pmid = 11649236 | doi = 10.1111/j.1467-8519.1988.tb00034.x }}</ref>