Fertility industry in dire need of oversight

Published May 15, 2015 9:00am ET



Television actress Sofia Vergara and her ex-fiancé are tussling over what should happen to embryos they created through in vitro fertilization in 2013.

The 42-year-old Modern Family actress wants the two female embryos to remain frozen indefinitely. Her ex, Nick Loeb, is suing to gain control over them. In a New York Times op-ed, Loeb wrote that he wants them implanted in a surrogate and that he intends to raise the children himself.

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