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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how much I fight, doesn't matter how

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Speaker 1: much I cry over all of this, It doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: how much justice we get. None of it's going to

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Speaker 1: get me pregnant.

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Speaker 2: Imagine pouring years of hope, trust, and your last dollar

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Speaker 2: into a fertility clinic just to have your dream of

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Speaker 2: a child halted in the middle of treatment, no warning,

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Speaker 2: no explanation, no refunds. Perhaps so breaking news to tell

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Speaker 2: you about Tennessee's Attorney general is suing a Nashville doctor.

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Speaker 2: In April twenty twenty four, women arrived at the Center

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Speaker 2: for Reproductive Health for scheduled IVF appointments. Instead, the clinic

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Speaker 2: was gone shut down overnight and trapped behind locked doors

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Speaker 2: were more than a thousand frozen embryos. For many patients,

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Speaker 2: their only chance at a family. They were just going

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Speaker 2: to ignore us.

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Speaker 1: They weren't going to answer us. They had truly closed

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Speaker 1: their clinic.

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Speaker 2: I was terrified. Out of all of our journey, that

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Speaker 2: was the worst moment ever. This is the story of

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Speaker 2: an IVF clinic's catastrophic collapse and the patients left behind,

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Speaker 2: But it's also about an industry where profit often trump's protection,

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Speaker 2: and vulnerable families carry all the.

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Speaker 1: Risk IVF today is far less regulated than virtually an

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Speaker 1: incomparable part of medical practice in the United States.

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Speaker 2: I'm Melissa Jelson and This is What Happened in Nashville,

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Speaker 2: an investigative podcast from iHeart Podcasts and School of Humans.

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Speaker 2: Like my earlier true crime podcasts, What Happened to Sandy Beal,

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Speaker 2: What Happened to Libby Caswell, and What happened to Telema Czar.

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Speaker 2: It's about women failed by the people and systems meant

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Speaker 2: to protect them. But this season, those failures go beyond

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Speaker 2: the legal system to the medical field and the very

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Speaker 2: business of fertility. Unfortunately, a lot of people are getting

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Speaker 2: taken advantage of because we're desperate, and when no one

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Speaker 2: else would step in, they banded together, strangers, challenging an

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Speaker 2: industry that's surprisingly underregulated and expanding rapidly. At that point,

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Speaker 2: it didn't occur to me what fight was going to

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Speaker 2: come to follow.

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Speaker 1: It feels like I just keep getting older and my

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Speaker 1: embryos keep sitting in a take.

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Speaker 2: This story touches anyone who's ever dreamed of having a child,

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Speaker 2: and what's at stake isn't just a few family's futures.

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Speaker 2: It's whether the promise of modern fertility care can be

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Speaker 2: trusted at all.

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Speaker 1: This was our last chance. Like the last of everything,

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Speaker 1: the dream was over.

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