News from Michelle Obama's forthcoming book, which goes on sale next Tuesday: Michelle Obama says she felt “lost and alone” after suffering a miscarriage 20 years ago and she and Barack Obama underwent in vitro fertilization to conceive their two daughters. ... IVF is one form of assisted reproduction and typically involves removing eggs from a woman, fertilizing them with sperm in a lab, and implanting a resulting embryo into the woman’s uterus. Conservative America responds with its usual grace and dignity: Michelle Obama is not a woman.