Sarah Elizabeth Richards contests the link:
"When women hear things in the press about the causes of infertility, they feel guilty that they’ve done something that prevented them from getting pregnant," explains Sharon Covington, a psychologist at Shady Grove Fertility Center in Washington, D.C., who reminds patients that many women who have endured severe trauma, such as the Holocaust or rape, still got pregnant. "There is nothing worse than hearing a family member say, ‘You’re way too stressed out’ or ‘You’ve just got to relax.’ It’s not something they can turn on and off."