Immediate Action Needed in Kansas to Protect Infertility Patients!
Posted on March 9, 2010 - Filed Under Infertility, Patient Advocacy, Resources, Womens Issues | Leave a Comment
Welcome to the Twin Peas Blog and Podcast! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my updates by RSS feed or you can have new posts and episodes sent right to your Email. Thanks for visiting!More anti-fertility treatment legislation. Please take action if you live in Kansas!
Copied from a RESOLVE [...]
Immediate Action Needed in Oklahoma and Arizona
Posted on March 4, 2010 - Filed Under Infertility, Patient Advocacy, Resources | 2 Comments
Below is a RESOLVE alert regarding OK:
On Thursday, February 25, the Oklahoma House of Representatives passed a bill — House Bill 3077 – that will have the effect of eliminating egg donor treatment in Oklahoma – a treatment that has helped countless couples over the past 20+ years. The bill would outlaw all compensation [...]
Endometriosis Awareness Month
Posted on March 1, 2010 - Filed Under Infertility, Patient Advocacy, Womens Issues | 3 Comments
March is Endometriosis Awareness Month. Visit the Chronic Healing blog this month for all the details and online activities planned. Sign the petition to bring more awareness about Endometriosis too. See the blue box, below and on the right side of my blog or visit Chronic Healing and sign the petition there.
Read More..>>Keep Fertility Treatments a Family Building Option in Arizona
Posted on February 22, 2010 - Filed Under Infertility, Patient Advocacy, Resources, Womens Issues | 4 Comments
The Arizona Alert from RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association:
The Arizona legislature will be voting on four bills in the next few days — Senate Bill 1306 and 1307, and House Bill 2651 and 2652 – which will impose new and unprecedented restrictions on donor egg treatment for infertility and impact a clinic’s ability to practice [...]
Read More..>>AZ Infertility Patients Rights at Risk – Immediate Action Needed
Posted on February 13, 2010 - Filed Under Infertility, Patient Advocacy, Womens Issues | 5 Comments
In the State of Arizona, both the House and the Senate are going to hear bills on Wednesday, Feb. 17th that will impact egg donor availability. Below is an email from RESOLVE’s advocacy committee:
“The Arizona legislature is quickly pushing two bills — Senate Bill 1306 and House Bill 2651 – which will impose new and [...]
Positive Legislation in Maryland!
Posted on January 27, 2010 - Filed Under Infertility, Patient Advocacy, Resources, Womens Issues | Leave a Comment
News from RESOLVE regarding legislation in Maryland.
Great news! A bill has been introduced in the Maryland House of Delegates that would change the current infertility insurance mandate to allow more people to access insurance benefits. Currently the waiting period for insurance coverage is two years for a history of infertility before the insurance [...]
Online Medical Resources
Posted on January 24, 2010 - Filed Under Patient Advocacy, Resources | Leave a Comment
In the January 2010 issue of The Costco Connection there was an article on how more people are turning to the web for medical advice. The article states that 61 percent of individuals are using the Internet to find health information.
The couple interviewed for the article discuss how they turned to the Internet when [...]
MI Residents Take Action – IVF Treatments at Risk
Posted on January 19, 2010 - Filed Under Infertility, Patient Advocacy, Resources | 1 Comment
Below is a copy of an email I received from RESOLVE (modified with website links for this blog post):
Dear Michigan Residents,
RESOLVE needs your urgent and immediate action on a series of bills introduced in the Michigan State Senate that will threaten access to IVF treatments, invade the privacy of patients pursuing IVF, and take [...]
