October 2008

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  Let’s get connected!

  10.26.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  For the many of you that are on Facebook, you may be happy to know that Prospective Families now has its own Facebook page. Our page has feeds directly from our blog, videos, news, and events. If you are on Facebook you can become a fan and stay connected. If you are not on Facebook, […]

• Egg Donation

  I’ll ask again, are those in need of ART wandering around uneducated?

  10.26.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Well, my last few posts have generated quite a bit of empassioned feedback from “infertility consultants” defending the need for “professional educators” to fill the void they feel left by clinical teams, attorneys, mental health providers etal in giving patients/clients a solid understanding of alternative family building options and issues.
  I returned yesterday from the RESOLVE of the Bay State […]

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  As licensed professionals, are we meeting our obligation to educate?

  10.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Are we meeting the needs of patients/clients to comprehensively educate or is their a void w/in which uncredentialed service providers (i.e. Independent Infertility Consultants) are now marketing (and charging for) services we, as licensed professionals should be providing?
  As a long-term patient advocate (beginning my career in infertility working on complex legislative matters regarding insurance coverage for […]

• Egg Donation

  Fertility Tourism???

  10.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Over the past 12-18 months there has been a buzz, made all the more loud by a recent episode of Oprah, regarding American couples going abroad, mostly to India, to pursue family building at what is being billed as a cost savings. At both the American Fertility Association conference and yesterday’s American Academy of Adoption Attorneys […]

• Egg Donation

  A Call to Colleagues: Will independent Professional Organizations Over-burden Prospective Parents with too much Choice??

  10.08.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This past weekend I had the pleasure of meeting with and advising more than several prospective parents about the choices they are faced with when pursuing alternative family building. Even though many of these folks came to hear me talk about egg donation, we began one round-table discussion comparing the choice of collaborative conception over […]