In 2000, Costa Rica became the first country in the world to ban in vitro fertilization. But a dozen years later, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights struck down the IVF ban, in a ruling that helped usher in an era of reproductive freedom for many in Latin America. Medical anthropologist Lynn Morgan tells host Carolyn Beeler how it happened.
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