The controversial medical practice banned in almost every country in the world is booming in the US where clinics are raking in $500 million a year - and is bad news for men

In vitro fertilization is 1 of nan much arguable aesculapian practices crossed nan globe - mostly owed to its invasive, grueling nature, and tremendous value tag.

One round, will tally patients astatine slightest $20,000 - a mini value to salary for those struggling pinch fertility issues.

As for patients, immoderate are aforesaid activity couples, while immoderate are conscionable azygous attempting parenthood connected their own. 

As of writing, 15 states - including California - require security plans screen it, though much often than not, nan sum is minimal. 

Considered a past edifice for those who are eager to beryllium parents but who look obstacles erstwhile it comes to conceiving, nan curen is still connected nan emergence - astatine slightest successful nan US.

'The marketplace is nan size of nan quality race,' said Jeffrey Steinberg, laminitis of nan Fertility Institutes successful Los Angeles, of the assisted gestation practice's popularity.

At his clinic, patients tin prime characteristics specified arsenic their baby's oculus color, arsenic he collects eggs from their ovaries to beryllium fertilized by sperm successful a lab.

Participants tin besides take their baby's activity - a perk he estimates draws 85 percent of patients alone

He told Slate Tuesday really he markets this work aggressively, arsenic figures surrounding selective IVF for activity action show that it rakes successful an estimated $500 cardinal a twelvemonth for clinics crossed nan country.

That accounts for 5 percent of nan immoderate $8 cardinal nan practices rake successful in nan SS, Steinberg pointed retired - citing a seemingly unlimited ceiling for growth.

Sharon Moayeri, nan laminitis of OC Fertility successful Newport Beach, said much of nan same, revealing that for galore Americans, nan expertise to prime sexes is benignant of a metallic lining - successful a oversea of uncertainty created by trouble conceiving.

However, dissimilar Steinberg's, her session does not heavy advertise activity selection, she said - though she estimates that still immoderate 15 percent of patients get solely because of nan perk, without immoderate fertility issues.

A expert astatine nan aesculapian halfway astatine nan University of California San Francisco, meanwhile, said that a debased number of patients travel successful solely for activity selection, but did constituent retired respective instances of parents who, erstwhile successful nan building, are much apt to petition girls - a arena not unsocial among Americans, Slate found.

The publication said to 15 women and a fewer men who scheme connected doing IVF solely for nan assurance they will conceive a daughter, fueling statement complete nan grade of power immoderate parents are attempting amid nan arguable practice.

Meanwhile, IVF is almost unheard unheard of successful countries crossed nan remainder of nan world - allowed for everyone only successful Spain, Belgium, Czech Republic, India, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, and nan US.

Germany, Austria, Italy, UK, Egypt, Saudi Arabia besides connection IVF, but only to heterosexual couples, pinch nan UK nan only 1 to let it for azygous women.

Moreover, Egypt and Saudi Arabia only administer nan believe connected joined couples, forcing unwed wannabes to look elsewhere.      

In nan US, nan expertise to power a baby’s destiny - offered chiefly to single mothers, same-sex couples, and families pinch a history of autism - is still a spot divisive.

In an exclusive canvass administered by DailyMail.com successful March, 60 percent of Americans of each ages said nan curen should stay legal, while conscionable 12 percent said it should beryllium illegal, according to nan study of 1,000 voters. 

In contrast, 27 percent said they did not cognize either way. 

The groups pinch nan slimmest majorities successful favour of in vitro fertilization (IVF) were Blacks and Latinos, group aged 18 to 29 and Republicans.

By contrast, nan largest support was among group complete 65, whites, assemblage graduates and Democratic voters.

The results travel aft nan fertility curen was thrust into nan spotlight past period erstwhile a tribunal successful Alabama ruled frozen embryos person nan aforesaid authorities arsenic children.

 While nan Alabama ruling did not straight restrict IVF, it could unfastened nan doorway to wrongful decease lawsuits for embryos that are discarded. 

With nan threat of prosecution looming, location are fears that doctors will extremity performing IVF, limiting entree to an already reliable to get treatment.

Laura Kerwin, a Harvard-trained scientist successful California, told Slate: “It’s a moneymaking industry.

'People request to recognize that [clinics] person a fiduciary work to their shareholders to make money. They’re trying to waste you connected an option.'