Advocacy
AllPaths Family Building is proud to advocate for access to fertility care and family building options for all. Hear more about our work, meet our community advocates, and learn how you can get involved.
Janene’s Journey: “Everyone is deserving of a family.”
Join us as we explore Janene Oleaga’s work as a family formation attorney and reproductive rights advocate. Janene's deeply held belief that everyone deserves a family is reflected in her commitment to guiding families through various family building...
Kate’s Journey: Celebrating 10 years as Executive Director of AllPaths Family Building
Kate Weldon LeBlanc, Executive Director of AllPaths Family Building, shares her journey of an unexplained infertility diagnosis, loss, and her path to parenthood. With fertility treatment, Kate and her husband Joe became successfully pregnant with their now...
Medical Need Deserving of Coverage
Featured in the AllPaths Magazine, 2024 Volume 3 By Maggie Husbands 89/70. I stare at this extremely low blood pressure, see my heart rate climb and feel clots the size of baseballs pour out of my body. As an ER nurse with over six years of experience, I...
The NEW Massachusetts Fertility Preservation Law: What It Is and Why It Matters
Featured in the AllPaths Magazine, 2024 Volume 3 By Taryn Collins This summer, the Fertility Preservation bill became law in Massachusetts. While the Commonwealth has long been a pioneer of providing fertility benefits, this legislation expands access by...
Polly’s Journey: Someone shouldn’t have to experience tragedy for things to be equal.
Director of Family Advocacy at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law) and recipient of the 2024 AllPaths Advocacy Award, Polly Crozier shares her own challenging family building story, as well as her advocacy for parentage equality inclusive...
Protecting All Massachusetts Families
Featured in the AllPaths Magazine, 2024 Volume 2 By Kate Weldon LeBlanc In Massachusetts, action on most substantive bills must be done during formal sessions of the House of Representatives and Senate. These formal sessions end on July 31st, which often...
Let’s Protect Families!
The weather has not been the only thing heating up this month! LOTS has been going on with the advocacy work of AllPaths Family Building, so I am pleased to share this update. We are thrilled that the Massachusetts House of Representatives unanimously passed...
After Alabama
Featured in the AllPaths Magazine, 2024 Volume 1 By Thea Burke In December of 2020, a patient at the Center for Reproductive Medicine in Alabama walked into the cryogenic freezer, opened a cryotank and dropped embryos on the floor after burning his hand on...
A Reflection on a Year with Some of the Toughest Days
Guest Post by Kristen L. O’Neill 2023 was a year of deep pain. The kind of pain you experience when the third baby you are expecting dies in your womb. With the third loss in a row, I had to face the harsh reality that siblings for my living daughter may...
ASRM Issues New Definition of “Infertility”
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2023 Volume 3 By Dana Rudolph, adapted with permission from Mombian The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) has updated its definition of “infertility” to make it more inclusive of LGBTQ and single people who seek...
An Advocacy Champion Who Gets It
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2023 Volume 3 Advocacy is a core part of the Resolve New England mission, and as such, we proudly give an annual Advocacy Award. This honor recognizes an individual, group or organization who over the past year has advanced...
Access to Fertility Care in Maine
This May marks the 1-year anniversary of the signing of LD 1539, “An Act to Provide Access to Fertility Care," making Maine the fifth (out of the six) New England states to provide residents access to the care and resources they need to grow their families....