I once pulled down my pants in the Senate Minority Leader's office at the Michigan State

Capitol.

No. at the Michigan State Capitol.

No, I wasn't having a psychotic break. I had to give myself a shot in the bud because I was trying

in the most expensive and time consuming and emotionally exhausting

way possible to have a baby. I was going through the infertility process of IVF or

in vitro fertilization and when I say process I mean

parossess all of it has to be perfectly timed. First there's years of trying to have a baby the good old-fashioned way, you know, sex.

Then there's the doctor's appointments where they try different combinations of oral medications

test to see if anything is wrong with you.

When you do finally say yes I'm going to do

IVF then even more fun. You have daily shots to stimulate your ovaries. Then there's

the egg retrieval and you wait for those eggs to be shot.

And then you lose some embryos because they're not viable.

And then you're left with however many you get.

Maybe you need another egg retrieval, but then...

By the time you go to transfer an embryo into your body, you've now gone through

months of painful injections, medications that make you sweat, cry, and scream, and sleepless nights just trying

to not get your hopes up too much that you will finally be able to complete your family. But what if, as you're going through all of this

to get yourself a baby, a court made a decision that shut down your doctor's office.

That's what happened to Gabi Goydell in Alabama.

I just broke down into tears.

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