Jessica Goodman is the New York Times bestselling author of The Counselors, They'll Never Catch Us, and They Wish They Were Us. She is the former op-ed editor at Cosmopolitan magazine, and was part of the 2017 team that won a National Magazine Award in personal service.
are legally considered children, a decision which put the entire practice of in vitro fertilization into question in the state. Doctors and clinics that previously performed the procedure announced they wouldThe consequences of the decision have rippled throughout the state, devastating people and couples who were counting on IVF to have biological children or have frozen embryos but are no longer allowed to do with them what they wish.
I broke down yesterday, a full-blown meltdown. I am so tired. These are my children, according to Alabama, and I have zero access to my six embryos. They’re my children but I can’t touch them. I can’t see them. I can’t say let’s get in the car and go for a ride. I have seen a couple of companies and clinics offering free services for shipment, but honestly, I worry that they're going to keep shutting down.
We had planned on doing a third IUI in March and then probably going straight to IVF in April. But that’s all on hold now. Technically we can still do our third IUI, but the statistics of successful IUIs go down significantly after three rounds.We had never planned on telling everybody about our whole story. But like everyone in Alabama…we’re overwhelmed, we’re tired, we’re sad. We are absolutely terrified.
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