Abstract
A gap exists between medical facts and misconception as it relates to age-related infertility statistics and the efficacy of assisted reproductive technologies. With this in mind, this chapter will consider the ways in which media texts ranging from the documentary tradition to entertainment magazines have the opportunity to inform viewers about the lived experience of infertility, the commonality of age-related infertility and the emotional, physical, logistical and financial reality of using assisted reproductive technologies. Although the media has introduced such themes to a contemporary audience, the fact that they lean on personal stories with happy endings diminishes the reality of age-related infertility, overlooks the low success rates of current assisted technologies and reminds us of the importance of biological motherhood in the pronatal period.
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