Chicana Ways - Aletta

AnyBody's Concerns 6(2003)
to put it more accurately, sub-
fertility (total infertility in
both women and men is actually
extremely rare; we have
impairments, blockages, low
gamete production for the most
part, which reduces rather than
eliminates fertility) - was
devastating at the time. Nothing
could have prepared me for the
shock on discovery that I
couldn't conceive without this highly invasive treatment. A
working professional life was turned upside down by a roller
coaster of drugs and surgery, my eyes pinned open to this new
world in which women submit their bodies for a breathtaking,
sometimes heartbreaking, and frequently spectacular process of
pro-creation. My own process was intensified by my agreeing to
participate in a major six part TV documentary series Making
Babies (BBC 1996), which was being made in the Hammersmith
Hospital where I was a patient of the now media-famous Lord
Robert Winston.
3 The documentary that was eventually broadcast betrayed
the reason I had wished to collaborate with the serious and
committed producer. The project turned our lives in soaps and
edited out anything I had spoken about in interview with
regard to the economics or sexual politics of the infertile
experience. The viewing ratings were, due to the series'
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