2 published verifications about Infertility Infertility ×
“Each year, millions of people undergoing infertility treatment use assisted reproductive technology (ART), and most of those people do not have a live birth.”
ART is performed at a multi-million-cycle scale worldwide, and most individual cycles do not end in a live birth. But the claim overstates what the evidence proves by treating cycles as people and per-cycle failure as per-person failure. Patient-level outcomes are more favorable across multiple cycles, so the wording gives an unduly pessimistic picture of overall chances of having a live birth.
“Infertility is primarily caused by factors related to women rather than men.”
This claim is false. Medical evidence consistently shows that male and female factors each account for roughly one-third of infertility cases, with the remaining third involving both partners or unknown causes. The higher female infertility statistics sometimes cited reflect a well-documented surveillance bias—infertility has historically been tracked and diagnosed through women, leading to systematic underdiagnosis of male infertility. The WHO, NICHD, and multiple clinical sources confirm there is no basis for attributing infertility "primarily" to women.