When I look into my daughter's eyes, I remember the heartache it took to have her. And I see what can be accomplished with science, belief and love.

Some couples elect to use a surrogate in a final effort to birth a genetic child after other methods have failed. But there are Jewish complexities to surrogacy.

As part of Hadassah’s larger efforts to decrease stigma around infertility, the magazine is sharing stories of adoption as well reproductive medical interventions submitted by readers.

Hadassah is organizing community programs, hosting trainings and empowering individuals to speak openly about their infertility journeys and pathways to parenthood—or their decision to live childfree.

I asked myself whether we could attempt to be a “family” without children? Had we only gotten married to procreate?

The NY bill would legalize paid gestational surrogacy, in which a woman is compensated to carry a child not conceived using her eggs.