Chang Sheng-ping, Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Taiwan Veteran's General Hospital, points out that Veteran's General averages 500 patients undergoing in vitro fertilization (popularly known as "test-tube baby" operations) every year, more than 50 of whom are overseas Chinese.
李太太並非特例，台北榮民總醫院婦產部科主任張昇平指出，榮總每年平均為五百人次的病人作試管嬰兒手術，而從海外歸國求子者，平均在五十人以上。