Infertility In The Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood

Infertility In The Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood

Infertility is the incapability or failure conceive after one year of unprotected sexual intercourse or due to an impairment a person's capacity to reproduce either as an individual or with his/her partner. While infertility can cause issues in men and women, women are more susceptible to having issues conceiving naturally. 1 in 8 women (or 12% of married couples) have trouble getting pregnant or sustaining a pregnancy (2006–2010 National Survey of Family Growth, CDC). There is a process in which three stages such as ovulation, fertilization, and implantation that a women's body must go through to get pregnant. When there are issues in these stages, infertility is diagnosed and examined by a doctor therefore, making it hard to conceive a baby naturally. Throughout this paper, I will explain three common causes of infertility in females like endometriosis, sexual transmitted diseases, and poor nutrition. In the story The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, women are infertile because of pollution, STD's, and radiation. If in fact, radiation caused the women of Gilead to be infertile it could possible because the radiation caused a chemical or hormonal imbalance. With that being said, the world we live in today, the leading causes of infertility in the U.S. is endometriosis. Infertile women are 6 to 8 times more likely to have endometriosis than fertile women (Verkauf BS). This syndrome is found mostly in women because this is where the endometrial tissue grows outside of

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