Miriam Zoll's memoir about trying to get pregnant in near-middle-age, Cracked Open: Liberty, Fertility, and the Pursuit of High-Tech Babies, is more than a personal account of the failed promise of Assisted Reproductive Technologies [ART] for her and her husband. It's also an exposé, lambasting the business of selling dreams to people desperate for biological offspring and a clear-eyed assessment of the high failure rate - 150,000 tries resulted in only 47,090 live births in 2010 - of in vitro fertilization, egg donation and surrogacy for the many women who use them. (more...)
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