More than a third of transgender people—who constitute an estimated 0.7 percent of the U.S. population—want to have biological children—either right now, or in the future. Yet, according to a report by Medscape, a news [...]
As we begin LGBTQ Pride Month, I am proud to recommend a great new book, Love Comes First: Creating LGBTQ Families, by Dr. Bradford Kolb, MD, and Melinda Maerker, with photographs by David Miller. I contributed to a chapter [...]
In this Fertility Café podcast, I join host Eloise Drane of Family Inceptions to discuss surrogacy and what intended parents and surrogates need to know about preparing legally for this life-changing event. As Eloise [...]
I was delighted recently to be a featured guest on Cleveland NBC affiliate WKYC’s podcast, “3 Things to Know with Stephanie Haney,” in which the host and I discussed egg freezing as a means of fertility preservation and [...]
3 Things to Know
NBC affiliate WKYC Cleveland 3 Things to Know, May 31, 2021, “Money, Long-Term and Legal Concerns That Come With Egg Freezing, with Fertility Lawyer Molly O’Brien” with Stephanie Haney
COVID-19 Accelerates Egg-Freezing Boom
Egg freezing, or oocyte cryopreservation, already growing in popularity as a way to preserve fertility against disease and to postpone childbearing for career reasons, has exploded during the COVID-19 era. Early predictions [...]