This person is not your friend. Anyone who can make such a callous remark to someone struggling with fertility is no friend. Infertility is not a "choice". It could be argued, I suppose, that a person who was fertile and left it too long to try to conceive made that choice knowing full well the risks of waiting.
That is very different to someone who has always been and always will be unable to conceive and/or carry a child to term or who's fertility options are prematurely ended through no fault or choice of their own. IVF is an option, sure, but it is not a cure and is, to me, more of a "way around" infertility. It is not a choice in the sense of it being a cure and a guarantee of having a child.
One could argue that having my uterus prematurely removed was a choice - and indeed I chose to undergo that procedure - but when the alternative to making that choice was potentially death, it became less of a choice about fertility and one about living or dying. As it was my uterus was a useless mess anyway so had I kept it I still wouldn't have been able to have a child.
You have my deepest sympathies OP, I've had some hideous remarks made to me that went beyond cruel. I remember each and every insensitive and cruel remark that has been said to me about my situation - and every single person who made them. None of those people are in my life anymore. I am, for the most part, at peace with my situation now but it doesn't completely go away - it still hurts and there are elements of society/life that will always be that bit difficult, painful and frustrating for me.
Whatever path you go down, OP, be it IVF or whether you pursue other options to become a parent, I do wish you every success and happiness. They do not, however, change the pain of the circumstance you have found yourself in which is NOT a choice. I hope that other people around you are more sensitive, caring and supportive.