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.
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....
Access to Fertility Care in New England
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2023 Volume Advocacy has been part of the mission of Resolve New England (RNE) throughout our history, and it feels more important than ever right now. Having recently completed strategic planning, RNE has affirmed that...
Peace of Mind: The Importance of Parentage Acts
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2022 Volume 3 By Meredith Wheeler In the spring of 2020 when the Rhode Island legislature passed the Parentage Act, my wife and I were only a few months into a pregnancy we hoped would bring us our long-awaited baby. Over the...
Removing Barriers: The Wait to Start Our Family
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2022 Volume 3 By: Nicole Leite I’ll never forget my OBGYN doctor stating, “I’m not saying you can’t get pregnant, but…” The rest was a blur. The delivery of her message cut deep. As I lay on the exam table, it was the first time...
Moving Forward Post-Dobbs with Fertility and Family Building
By Catherine Tucker The recent decision by the United States Supreme Court to overturn the case of Roe v. Wade has left a lot of people wondering how fertility treatment and family building, particularly through adoption, will be impacted. This includes...
An Act to Provide Access to Fertility Care
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2022 Volume 1 *LD 1539 is currently under consideration this session. We'll be updating the article as the process proceeds! Maine has many things, including rugged coastline, abundant seafood, and wonderful, hardworking people....
Family Building Support at Work
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2021 Volume 3 By: Leah Workman Being in your work environment while going through a family building journey can bring up different emotions for everyone, including stress and sadness. For instance, some might be nervous to...
Protecting a Path to Future Parenthood
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2021 Volume 3 Many individuals and couples dream of becoming a parent. Yet for some, future parenthood is jeopardized by medical conditions and/or treatment that can impair their fertility, including but not limited to some...
Most Common Cause of Female Infertility Remains Underfunded
Guest Post by Shruthi Mahalingaiah, MD and Sasha Ottey We've seen the recent headlines about declining birth rates across the globe. But this trend isn’t new. Birth rates have been declining for at least the past decade in the United States for a multitude...