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.
Lisa’s Journey: A Safe Space to Say the Unsayable
In this episode we welcome Lisa Rosenthal, President of the AllPaths Family Building Board of Directors. Lisa shares her deeply personal and often challenging six-and-a-half year journey through infertility, which began when she was 26 and "very naive" about...
Shannon’s Journey: “This Is Your Body, This Is Your Life”
In this episode of the AllPaths podcast, we welcome guest Shannon Cook to share her journey. Shannon recounts her experience navigating fertility struggles, including early attempts at conception, misdiagnoses like hydrosalpinx and stage three endometriosis,...
Lauren C’s Journey: IVF finds a way to humble you
This episode features Lauren Hart Clancy, a perinatal advocate, AllPaths peer group leader, parent through IVF, and co-chair of the 2025 Footsteps for Family Building Walk. Lauren shares her journey through multiple IVF cycles, a delayed male-factor...
Real IVF Facing Real Consequences
Featured in the AllPaths Magazine, 2025 Volume 1 by Kate Weldon LeBlanc You likely have heard or read about so-called “personhood” bills being considered across the United States. Perhaps this has left you wondering what they are and how they may impact...
The Unexpected Roadblock: Out-of-State Adoptions in Massachusetts
Featured in the AllPaths Magazine, 2025 Volume 1 by Kayla Bortlik Imagine you’re a hopeful adoptive parent who lives in Massachusetts, in the final stages of adopting a baby from a different state. The adoption process seems to be running smoothly, until...
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...