The multimillion-dollar IVF industry is now responsible for one in every 18 births in Australia. But when things go wrong, who is holding these fertility clinics to account? Two mothers are fighting back against the corporate giants, teaming up to get access to their own medical information.
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00:00In a farming shed in far northern New South Wales, two mums work into the night.
00:08So, yeah, that's those people at the wind.
00:11They're the ones that I've messaged, I haven't heard back from.
00:15This is the nerve centre of their two-year investigation
00:19into one of Australia's biggest fertility clinics.
00:22We are light detectives because we're trying to find out the truth.
00:31Nobody's just offering up the truth to us, so we've gone looking for it.
00:36Anastasia and Lexie Gunn are the mums of three boys conceived through donor sperm.
00:44Just click on that, we'll see if it matches the information that we've got about the donor.
00:51Most evenings, they spend hours searching for clues
00:55into what went wrong with the conception of their children.
01:02We love our boys so deeply
01:06and what we want to do is get to the bottom of what's happened.
01:13How do you personally describe what has happened to your family?
01:18We had IVF and got the wrong sperm.