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Federalist Radio Hour: ‘The Kylee Cast’ feat. Leigh Fitzpatrick Snead, Ep. 25: When God Calls You To Parenthood But Not Pregnancy

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4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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On this episode of “The Kylee Cast,” Leigh Fitzpatrick Snead, a fellow at The Catholic Association and author of the new book “Infertile But Fruitful,” joins Federalist Managing Editor Kylee Griswold to share her story of infertility, her bad experience with IVF doctors, her journey to adoption, and her life of faith and joy — […]

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody, and welcome to the Kylie Cast. I'm Kylie Griswold, managing editor at The Federalist.

0:05.7

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the Federalist Radio Hour, or you are wrong with Molly Hemingway and David Harsani,

0:21.3

two of our other wonderful Federalist podcasts.

0:23.7

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0:30.9

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0:34.7

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0:38.3

on Rumble. And then, of course, like and subscribe there too. If you'd like to email the show,

0:43.4

you can do so at Radio at theFederalist.com. I would love to hear from you. Today, I am so excited

0:49.2

to welcome to the Kylie cast, Lee Fitzpatrick Sneed. Lee is a fellow at the Catholic Association, and she is also

0:56.7

the author of the brand new book, Infertil but Fruitful. In the book, Lee walks through her

1:03.1

personal story of infertility and what it was like going to see a doctor that did not align

1:08.3

with her Catholic worldview that really tried to immediately

1:11.4

push her toward IVF. She also talks about then pivoting to a different doctor that worked with

1:16.7

her wants and desires and within her Christian beliefs. She talks about adoption and the difference

1:22.2

between a desire for a baby and a desire for pregnancy. She talks about breastfeeding.

1:26.4

She talks about her faith and her

1:28.8

life and her marriage. There is truly something in this book for everyone, especially because even if

1:33.8

you don't personally struggle with infertility, you either know somebody or will know somebody who

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