First they came for our abortions, now they’re coming for our embryos
The Southern Baptist Convention's vote condemning IVF is the latest assault on fertility treatment that 1 in 6 Jewish families use
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Fast Forward Jewish fertility group is helping Alabama clients undergo IVF elsewhere after state’s explosive ‘fetal personhood’ ruling
‘This was kind of the worst-case scenario post-Dobbs,’ said Elana Frank, CEO and founder of the Jewish Fertility Foundation
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News Embryos ‘held hostage’: An Alabama court decision panics Jews relying on IVF
Many Jews consider the Alabama Supreme Court ruling a violation of their religious rights
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Opinion This Jew-ish card game kept me busy during my infertility treatment
While playing the card game Casino, I learned how quickly fortunes could change
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News Did Nazis make these Jewish women infertile?
New academic research suggests female Auschwitz prisoners may have been given hormones in their soup
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Opinion Roe’s reversal leaves Jewish IVF couples in a legal and emotional crossfire
Lawmakers banning abortion have not considered its effect on couples trying to create new life
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Life Can ‘Kosher’ IVF Help Prevent Fertility Mix-Ups?
When Esther and her husband decided to do fertility treatment, the modern Orthodox couple consulted with their rabbi. “We didn’t think twice about it,” said the New Jersey woman who preferred not to give her full name. She had lost a few pregnancies before starting in vitro fertilization (IVF), the medical process of extracting a…
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News Jewish Egg Donor Agencies Proliferate To Serve Aspiring Parents
When “Chaim Greenstein” and his wife realized that they could not have a biological baby together because his wife was too old, they decided to try to find an egg donor, in the hope that a younger woman’s eggs, combined in a lab with his sperm, would create an embryo that his wife could carry….
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