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.
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...
Advocacy Provides a Beacon of Hope
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2021 Volume 2 By Kate Weldon LeBlanc I have loved lighthouses for as long as I can remember. I look for them when I visit new areas for the first time. Sometimes I even plan a whole day trip around visiting one. Lighthouses are...
A Threat to Fertility Treatment
By Kate Weldon LeBlanc As an independent non-profit organization dedicated to supporting, informing, and advocating for all those in New England who are struggling with fertility and family building, Resolve New England (RNE) opposes the nomination of Amy...
Reflecting on my first Resolve Advocacy Day
By Tiffany Stratz There are so many emotions we feel through working with patients to achieve building their families. Providers and patients become very connected along this infertility path, as most of you reading this know. I wish there was a switch we...
New Hampshire Fertility Advocacy
By Kate Weldon LeBlanc RESOLVE New England is actively involved in advocating for insurance legislation in New Hampshire, in partnership with patients, advocates, and providers. The bill, SB 279, would provide group insurance coverage for the diagnosis of...