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.
Ginanne’s Journey: Children should never feel like there was something shameful or weird about how they were born.
In this episode, London-based American author and journalist Ginanne Brownell recounts her challenging journey of infertility, miscarriage, donor conception, and gestational surrogacy. Now parent to twins born in 2018, Ginanne’s personal experience...
AllPaths Family Building’s Response to the Executive Order on Expanding Access to IVF
Yesterday, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) titled “Expanding Access to In Vitro Fertilization.” As a nonprofit committed to supporting and advocating for all those facing fertility challenges, AllPaths Family Building is following this matter...
Massachusetts Endometriosis Advocacy 101
This training, led by Kate Weldon LeBlanc, Executive Director of AllPaths Family Building, provides information about advocating for state bills in Massachusetts. The focus of the training is on bills about endometriosis being considered in Massachusetts...
Joe’s Journey: “There’s nothing elective about infertility.”
Advocate, founder of Grain Fertility, and father through IVF, Joe Cody shares his family's journey which spanned four years and included multiple failed cycles and significant financial burdens. We explore the emotional and practical challenges faced by...
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...