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LARA FREIDENFELDS

Historian of Health, Reproduction, and Parenting in America

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    Lara Freidenfelds
    • Mar 14, 2020

    Sperm Donor Siblings Speak Their Truths

    In Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin, sociologists Rosanna Hertz and Margaret Nelson...
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Oct 23, 2019

    In Vitro Fertilization: From Science Fiction to Reality to History

    It was not that long ago that “test tube babies” only existed in science fiction. I remember my shock when, in 2007, one of my students...
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Nov 16, 2018

    Washington Post op-ed: What Michelle Obama’s Miscarriage Teaches Us About Modern Pregnancy

    “In her new book, “Becoming,” Michelle Obama reveals that she miscarried her first pregnancy, and went on to conceive her two daughters...
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Aug 20, 2014

    Whose Sperm Counts?

    Recently, a Canadian fertility clinic made the news because it refused to allow a white client to be impregnated with sperm from a donor...
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