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Molly Foeman and Kayla Rodriguez on the beach. Photo by: Debmalya Roy Choudhuri

The Winding Path to Queer Pregnancy 

By Yvonne Marquez

Molly Foeman, a 35-year-old stylist at Bloomingdale’s, and her fiance Kayla Rodriguez, a 26-year-old jewelry designer and vendor, decided to have a baby earlier this year. The lesbian couple excitedly went to their first appointment at a fertility clinic to begin the process of donor insemination and thought it would be easy to get pregnant at a doctor’s office. But, after three fertility clinics, over a thousand dollars out-of-pocket for doctor visits and tests, and emotional turmoil, their path to pregnancy hasn’t been straight-forward.

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