Rethinking Fertility

Commercial surrogacy is banned in China. So Chinese nationals are doing it here instead — and America's permissive surrogacy laws are making it easy. In Episode 3 of Rethinking Fertility, Emma Waters exposes the largely unreported world of international commercial surrogacy in the United States: who is using it, why, how much it costs, and what it means for American children, American sovereig...

IVF creates life... so how is IVF not pro-life? Most of us haven't been given the full picture of how IVF actually works. And you cannot make a faithful, informed decision about something you don't fully understand. So today, we're going to change that. In this episode, Emma Waters walks through exactly how IVF works, what the real success rates are, and the ethical realities that most fertility c...

"They told us motherhood could wait — then they sold it back to us at $12,000 a round." That headline stopped me cold. Because it tells the story of an entire generation of women handed a life script — delay fertility, trust the technology, start your family later. And we followed it. Now America isn't having children, and a $12,000-a-round industry has stepped in to fill the gap. In...

Hosted by Emma Waters, a policy expert in reproductive health, Rethinking Fertility is about navigating reproductive technology, and what it means to be human in an age of limitless medical possibility. The solution to the modern fertility crisis begins with asking the right questions. Subscribe and join this community. 📌 Subscribe for new episodes every week Subscribe so you don't miss what&...