Fertility clinic failures leave families heartbroken
By JOHN SEEWER, Associated Press
Mar 14, 2018 11:04 PM CDT
Fertility clinic failures leave families heartbroken
FILE - This undated photo provided by the family shows Amber and Elliott Ash holding their son, Ethan. In 2014 the couple decided to start the process of having a child through in-vitro fertilization while in their early 30s. Their son was born the next year, and two frozen embryos remained in storage...   (Associated Press)

Two unexplained storage tank failures at fertility clinics in suburban Cleveland and San Francisco may have cost many women and couples their best chance to have children.

Thousands of frozen eggs and embryos are feared damaged or destroyed.

Some couples will have to decide whether to go through long and sometimes painful in vitro fertilization treatments again.

For other patients, that's no longer an option. That's because they saved their eggs and embryos before undergoing cancer treatments that destroyed their fertility.