Gabrielle Williams recalls hearing herself "gasp" when she was casually informed by a fertility clinic finance officer that she was "medically infertile". "I’d never been told I was infertile before, and to have a woman in finance mention it in this passing kind of way [during a discussion of cost structures] … I remember it just took my breath away," says Victoria’s Minister for Women, Youth and Prevention of Family Violence. Women’s Minister Gabrielle Williams used her own, sometimes-confronting, experience of IVF to inform the State’s review of the industry. Credit:Penny Stephens "I kind of just gasped and remember even being conscious that I gasped in shock." It was not the only jarring moment in three years and five fertility treatment cycles Williams, who was diagnosed at 19 with polycystic ovary syndrome, undertook hoping to become a mother – a hope yet to be realised. Up there, also, was […]