It took about 20 years and was in the face of intense opposition from the Medical Profession, the Medical Research Council, many politicians and Anti-Abortionists. Now IVF is a standard procedure and thousands of healthy babies have been produce by IVF all over the world. One of the future developments will be to produce an artificial uterus where the embryo can grow and develop to full term. This is being worked on in the USA and Japan, and will help those thousand of women who have miscarriages or are unable to carry an embryo in uterus to full term. But a chick embryo can develop in a turkey egg and vice versa.
More research is required.