Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer
Fri, 01 Nov 2024
One of the issues that has been front-and-center on the campaign trail is reproductive healthcare. Of course, there was the overturning of Roe v Wade in 2022, but in the time since, there’s been more limitations placed on reproductive healthcare— from abortion to IVF and everything in between. Today, Nicole talks to entrepreneur Jessica Schaefer about the cost, and future, of fertility. Jessica shares her own experience with freezing her eggs, what resources can make IVF more affordable and how she’s providing solutions with her startup Lushi. Follow Lushi here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lushifertility/
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When I started my fertility journey almost a decade ago now, I froze my eggs and I documented it for Good Morning America. So it was all out there. The crying, the pinching my stomach, the giving myself shots. It was all very much out there and very much public. I am currently eight months pregnant and I have been keeping this moment in my life mostly private. Maybe I'll talk about it more.
Maybe I won't. I do not know. But I do feel like I may talk about it someday because there's a lot at the But fertility, parenting, women's health is all top of mind for me now, both because of what's going on in my personal life, but also what's happening in the world. The election is next week.
And as we all think about what it means to vote with our values on Tuesday, we're also reflecting on the last couple of months of the presidential campaigns. One of the issues that has been front and center on the campaign trail is reproductive health care. Of course, there was the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.
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