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Thursday, October 3, 2013
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A Frightening Lesson InFertility: Slice Up Your Ovaries or Plan On Fighting

My take on the latest infertility treatment published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences A 30 year old woman, along with twenty six other infertility patients, recently had her ovaries surgically removed, cut into small cubes and then placed into her fallopian tubes after the ovarian tissue had been treated with egg-stimulating drugs.  The […]

Wednesday, September 18, 2013
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Infertility: The Lie that Sells,The Price We Pay; Fertile Heart founder Julia Indichova responds to the NYT piece “Selling the Fantasy of Fertility

The authors of the NYT op-ed “Selling the Fantasy of Fertility,” were right on target when they pointed toward the seductive sales pitch of the infertility industry. What Miriam Zoll (author of Cracked Open: Liberty, and the Pursuit of High Tech Babies) and Pamela Tsigdinos failed to spot is the elephant in the room, the […]

Tuesday, September 3, 2013
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Lesson InFertility: Must Stay Busy Being Born

The great fertility specialist Bob Dylan reminds us that  “He not busy being born, is busy dying.” On this  scenic road to motherhood, if we are to keep becoming more and more fertile, we have no choice but to stay busy being born. Which unborn part of you is calling to be born at this juncture of your […]

Tuesday, August 13, 2013
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9/11 Bowing Project Journal Entry August 11, 2013

August 11 was a Sunday this year.  I began bowing at my usual spot across the street from Bread Alone bakery.  But minutes after unrollingmy banner I felt I was hiding, being too safe standing there in the shade, apart from the Sunday morning breakfast traffic. So I picked up the easel with the sign and took a […]

Wednesday, July 10, 2013
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Baby Steps by Elisabeth Rohm: A Book Review by Julia Indichova

If I had not spent the last 19 years of my life in intimate dialogues with hundreds of the wounded veterans of the infertility techno-wars, I too might join the accolades for Baby Steps led by Dr. Sahakian, Rhom’s fertility doctor and the director of Pacific Fertility Center in LA, who writes: “What Elisabeth is doing by writing her memoir…and the fact that she had to do IVF to conceive is an immense favor to all reproductive-age women, and to the field of reproductive medicine.”

Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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Biological Clock or Time Bomb: Fear & Self-Loathing Do Not a Fertile Female Make

Exploiting Fears of Childlessness Might Be Slick Marketing, but Will It Make Us More Fertile? Fear and self-loathing won’t make us more fertile. But turning the biological clock into a time bomb by exploiting fears of childlessness makes for an effective marketing tool. The more panicked we are the more money we’ll spend for expert help. […]