Infertility treatments provide options for couples and individuals that were unavailable a decade ago, and inconceivable a generation ago. For those who place faith in science as people once did in religion, reproductive technologies are seen as unequivocally propitious. Those who have benefited from infertility treatments feel their faith justified and their conviction buttressed. Others are more skeptical of technology's promises of deliverance and wary of drawing any conclusions about its inherent benefits. Many people who tried to avail themselves of the fruits of reproductive technology feel their fealty betrayed. Having been fed vacuous promises has left them physically and spiritually barren.