A timeline on how quickly the Alabama Supreme Court's decision impacted our community in Alabama-- and its implications and what you can do about it, from our founder and CEO, Nara Lee:
"As someone who has, in a professional realm supported some of the most complex journeys to parenthood (on average, our concierge patients come to us, often referred by their fertility clinics, after they have been trying for 5+ years to conceive their children); as someone who has witnessed the most unimaginable impossibilities happen (like when we had to support our clients navigate horrific situations, such as when their frozen embryos went missing and destroyed in transport)—the main lesson I have learned in serving this community, in my soul, is the extraordinary intentionality and resilience of people who long to meet their children.
Whether single, partnered, heterosexual, or, LGBTQIA+, the amount of “overcoming” they have endured to try and start a family is humbling. The “waiting” is one of the hardest parts of any fertility journey, and that waiting has been extended for many in Alabama.
If you have witnessed what I have, I hope that you will have the humanity to understand why access to fertility treatments is so important, and why this new ruling has the potential to snowball into something so at odds with the direction in which we should be heading in.
I am not a doctor. I am not a scientist. So I will defer to all the brilliant doctors and scientists who have and continue to raise alarm over frozen embryos being treated like living people. There are so many reasons why this is a red flag and biologically incorrect.
I am a lawyer. I know, from my first year of law school alone, that the separation of church and state is enshrined in the First Amendment.
Guess how many times the Alabama Supreme Court mentioned the word “God” in their opinion to make their case? No less than 41 times. Although I am a religious person, I can recognize that these references to God and the Bible make the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling a theological opinion that has no place in our judicial system."
