First Person

Dollars and Sense

by Evelina Sterling

The economy stinks! Is now really the right time to try to have a baby?

In one word … absolutely! I know, I know, it’s a bit more complicated than that. After all, treating infertility can be expensive. And it’s difficult to know exactly where that money is going to come from, especially now. So, why do I still think it’s a good time for you to start trying to have a baby?

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Advice on managing the costs of infertility treatment.

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Personal Stories

Donor Egg Love

by Joyce McFadden

The most important woman in my life is a woman I only met for a couple of minutes.

My sweet daughter is 12 now, and I’m still so madly in love with her that several times each day I wish I could inhale her. I often think about the young woman known in my household as Angel Cate, whose egg made this child possible, and I send up little agnostic prayers of gratitude to whatever force in the universe brought her life to sit forever next to ours.

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A modern love story.

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Know Your Reproductive Rights: Reproductive Legal Update

by Melissa Brisman, Esq.

These are exciting times for practitioners and followers of reproductive law. Three recent, groundbreaking court cases are helping to further define the rights of same-sex couples and those having children with surrogates.

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Recent developments in the legal realm of reproductive health.

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