She recalled that same helplessness, assuming a call to her doctor would end with either an IVF referral or another push for birth control. Those 163 clinics alone performed an estimated 54 percent of all U.S. IVF cycles in 2023, despite making up less than a third of all clinics. “I went to the doctor, and no questions asked, it was just, ‘What kind of birth control do you want?’” “The cynical part of me would say that restorative medicine doesn't make as much money as birth control,” she said. Grace’s miscarriage was seen as a potential success metric, and Haley’s birth control prescription was just a band-aid masquerading as a cure.