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    Amid political IVF debates, parent hopefuls struggle to afford fertility care in California

    by Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times Mar 31, 2024 5 minutes
    California does not require that insurance companies cover IVF, which leaves many residents struggling to pay.

    In between chemotherapy, a double mastectomy and all the other medical appointments that come with a cancer diagnosis, Katie McKnight rushed to start the in vitro fertilization process in hopes that she could one day give birth when she recovered.

    McKnight, 34, of Richmond, Calif., was diagnosed in 2020 with a fast-spreading form of breast cancer. IVF can help boost chances of pregnancy for cancer patients concerned about the impacts of the disease and its treatment on fertility. The process involves collecting eggs from ovaries and fertilizing them with sperm in a lab, then implanting them in a uterus.

    But after having begun the process — being sedated to retrieve her eggs and paying hundreds of dollars annually to properly store the embryos made with her husband — McKnight can't afford right now to get the embryos out of a freezer.

    "You either have to be able to access a lot of money,

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