On July 25, 1978, Louise Brown, the first person born from in-vitro fertilization, was born in the United Kingdom. in vitro Developed by Patrick Steptoe and Robert G. Edwards, their research was primarily driven by scientific and clinical motives, such as ending infertility. From the 1980s, when the first clinics began to appear, to the present day, this milestone of ending infertility has been presented as scientific progress and individual freedom, but it also conceals a way of monetizing the desire to become parents. Underlying all of this is a very complex web of interests and power relations that specifically affect women's bodies, bodies that are impacted not only physically but also psychologically. According to materialist feminism, the body is not an abstract and inviolable space, but a place traversed by relations of production, reproduction, and exploitation. Assisted reproduction transforms bodily functions such as ovulation, gestation, and genetic capacity, and it does not transform all bodies equally; it is women who bear the physical, hormonal, and emotional risks of the process.

Miquel Roura has spent hours and hours researching genealogy platforms where users can post the results of a DNA test to find matches with other people. When there is a "match "Genetic" websites allow you to locate people with whom you have some degree of consanguinity and thus reconstruct your family tree.. For him, this is not a simple hobby of genealogy, but the only way he has found so far to discover his genetic origins. "Genetic information," he criticizes. As an example of the effects this has on his daily life, he explains: "Those of us who are parents often find that in pediatric consultations we are asked about our family history. I have to say that I have no knowledge." A proposal to modify the state law on assisted human reproduction. Judicial action to force a reform that would allow knowledge of genetic origins and that, they clarify, would not imply a legal link of paternity with the donor. Regarding the experiences of more than a hundred people who have joined the association, Sellés explains that "some clinics provide information such as skin color or blood type, others go further and even say what the donor studied or what their job was." On the other hand, he complains that in other cases, the clinic "does not even provide the risks of the company; it must provide this information. "It's up to each company, and in practice, the minimum requirements the law gives us aren't even met," he criticizes.

Assisted reproduction procedures have an emotional, physical, and economic impact. We spoke with women about their experience.

One in six people suffers from infertility problems, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), and one in 10 children are now born through assisted reproduction techniques in Spain—in 2022, there were 39,546 babies, according to the Spanish Fertility Society (SEF), out of 16,719 born. in vitro (IVF) and 31,635 artificial inseminations (AI). Although the success of these techniques is indisputable, the figures already show that going through an assisted reproduction process is not a piece of cake. The success rates, which depend on age and other factors, are 13.7% in the case of artificial insemination, and 43.8% in each cycle ofin vitro which reaches embryo transfer (when the embryo is placed in the uterus), which occurs in 60% of the cycles initiated.