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#BlackAndIVF: Opening Up About Infertility
L. Joy Williams, president of the Brooklyn National Association for the Advanced of Colored People (NAACP) and creator and host of “Sunday Civics” podcast, talks about starting the IVF process, why she thinks too many women still suffer in silence regarding fertility, especially black women, and takes calls.
"When I would talk to women they could quote to me dates of their miscarriages.. still quote the date from the 70s and 80s of their first loss. I discovered a sorority of women who have experienced loss in this way, experiencing fertility issues," @ljoywilliams on #BlackAndIVF.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 19, 2019"There are stereotypes of Black women being fertile, and if you don’t have a culture of talking about those things it does seem out of the ordinary and it makes you feel like there’s something wrong with you," says @ljoywilliams on #BlackAndIVF.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 19, 2019"There’s an insurance process, you’re not only dealing with the medical process with doctors and what they’ll prescribe, but then you’re dealing with an insurance company and what they’ll cover," says @ljoywilliams on #BlackAndIVF.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 19, 2019