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LARA FREIDENFELDS

Historian of Health, Reproduction, and Parenting in America

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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Sep 19, 2014

    Review: Positively Negative: Love, Pregnancy, and Science’s Surprising Victory over HIV

    What would you do if you desperately wanted to have a baby, and your spouse had HIV? In the mid-1990s, the introduction of highly-effective HIV drug regimens turned HIV from a death sentence into a chronic condition.  People with HIV and their life partners could begin to imagine creating families and living to see their children grow up.  But it was not until 2014 that researchers and policy-makers approved a prophylactic regimen that effectively protects against HIV-transmi
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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 of color. The clinic director told the media, “I’m not sure that we should be creating rainbow families just because some single woman decides that that’s what she wants.” When I first read this, I felt offended. Personally. My husband and I are different races, and our kids are bi-racial. I guess I had never proclaimed us a “rainbow family,
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