Now some are saying that the technology should be completely banned, something IVF specialists say would be a massive blow to infertile couples.

Pyotr Lewandowski from Warsaw’s Novum Clinic advises: “They should travel to Russia, Ukraine or the Czech Republic – our neighbors where you can use this method [of conception]. It is cruel for a society to push people away from their country for them to be healthy or have a baby.”

Poles against this method point towards a technique gathering momentum worldwide – Natural Procreative Technology, also known as “NaPro”. The method offers natural ways of treating infertility, one welcomed by the Catholic Church.

“The basis of diagnosis is observing a woman’s cycle. So many couples who have failed with IVF treatment come to a NaPro doctor. The doctor then examines the problem, and upon viewing the second cycle he can say: This is the problem,” told RT Joanna Najfeld, NaPro spokesperson.

NaPro is still very much in the shadow of the well-established IVF approach which boasts tens of thousands of successful pregnancies. Even with that statistic in mind, deeply Catholic Poles Adam and Beata Musiatewicz – struggling to have a baby – have opted for the natural procreative approach.

“If only IVF [is available], then we would not choose it,” said Adam and Beata. Answering the question whether they would rather have no babies at all, they said: “Yes, probably like that.”

The issue of whether NaPro treatment can work is exacerbated by the fact that Poland is a country not only driven by a wish to have children, due to its high infertility rates, but is also a matter of morality.