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Article: Evaluating purely reproductive disorders under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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- Michigan Law Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 1997
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Approximately 2.8 million American couples suffer from infertility,(1) a condition generally defined by the medical community as the failure to conceive after one year of unprotected intercourse.(2) During the past thirty years, diagnostic and therapeutic techniques for treating infertility have improved drastically, enabling many previously infertile couples to bear children.(3) These techniques, however, involve considerable expense and inconvenience, frequently requiring patients to take time off from work.(4) Disputes with employers may follow, sometimes resulting in the infertile employee's termination.(5) Some terminated employees, claiming that infertility ...