Advanced Reproductive Age and Fertility
Because the ART industry is largely unregulated, we have very little data on who uses these
technologies. Until 2003, the only national data collected was through the Fertility Clinic
Success Rate and Certification Act of 1992, which requires that fertility clinics report the number
of pregnancies and live births from ART, which the Act defines narrowly as “fertility treatments
in which both eggs and sperm are handled in the laboratory” (e.g., in vitro fertilization and
related procedures) and excludes treatments such as fertility drugs or alternative insemination
(also known as artificial insemination). The only demographic data collected is women’s...
