Adoption isn't an option past a certain age.
I bet her chances of becoming an adoptive parent were pretty good back in 1995. Think about all of the money that this woman spent on IVF treatments. If she had waved half that amount of money under the noses of the board of directors at an orphanage, she would have been a mother years ago. She wouldn't have had her third abortion.
As for IVF--the only reason to undergo IVF treatments that I can accept as not being inherently prideful is if a parent has a child dying of a rare disease and said parent is desperate for a matching donor. That's not prideful, that is a parent doing everything possible to save the life of a child. Even in that situation I am wary of IVF. Would all those fertilized eggs be brought to term, or would some of those embryos be culled? Does it make sense, any sense at all, to sacrifice the lives of several individuals in the hope that one may possibly be saved?