24th Annual Family Building Conference

Are you struggling with Infertility?
There is hope!

RESOLVE invites you to our 24th Annual Family Building Conference.

Family Building Options:
EXPLORING PATHS OF HOPE

Have you been trying to conceive for over 6 months?
Then this conference is for YOU!

The conference covers all aspects of family building including:
Beginning fertility treatments, considering IVF, looking into 3rd party reproduction, investigating adoption and considering living without parenting.

There are 16 Workshops to choose from!

• How to Afford Infertility
• Cutting Edge Technology
• Making the Decision to Adopt: Domestic vs. International
• Mars vs. Venus - Supporting Each Other
• Surrogacy/Gestational Carriers/Donor Egg, Donor Sperm/Embryo Donation
• Mind Body
• and much more.

Medical experts, attorneys, counseling professionals, adoption agencies and those who have experienced infertility first hand will provide information regarding all aspects of your family building journey.

Testimonials from previous conferences:
"The conference helped shine a light for me and gave me hope"
"Gave hope for some kind of positive outcome"
"Well organized topics, they covered a lot"
"Great access to info!"
"Personal and informative"

WHEN & WHERE is the Conference:
Saturday May 17th, 2008
7:30 - 5:00 PM
Calvary Lutheran Church, Golden Valley, MN
(RESOLVE is NOT religiously affiliated) See map online
Visit our website for more information and registration at http://www.midwest.resolve.org/

CONFERENCE FEES
Become a member today and receive member rates

Early Registration Fee (Regsiter by 04/28/08)
Regular Registration (After 4/29/08)

RESOLVE MEMBERS Individual$40/Couple $60 (Early) Individual $62/Couple $82 (Regular Fee)
Non-Members Individual $75/Couple $95 (Early) Individual $97/Couple $117 (Regular Fee)
Additional Guest $35 each(Early) $40/each (Regular Fee)

FREE GIVEAWAY
Over 15,000 worth of infertility & adoption services and merchandise to be given away. Each registration will automatically be entered.
Must be present to win.

Call 888.959.0333 for more information or to sign-up.

Infertility Is A Disease

The time has come to shed some truth that infertility is a disease. Both the CDC(Centers For Disease Control - Department of Health and Human Services) and ASRM (American Society of Reproductive Medicine) classify inferttility as a disease.

These are recognized bodies and the CDC comes under the control of a Federal Department (Department of Health and Human services). So a commenter from a previous post and at least one Minnesota State representative need to learn the facts.
I don't want to spund mean but to think that infertility is not a disease is wrong and not factual.

We're not making this up. We believe if a federal department that is responsible for our countries health, considers infertility a disease then it's a fact and not made up mumble jumble.

One Minnesota representative that we met with this week said that he "wasn't convinced infertility is a disease....it's natural selection...some people just aren't meant to be parents". We should have seen that ignorant comment coming. So I decided to go to both the CDC's website and ASRM's to provide factual information to our readers.

I'm not going to rehash their statements or their definitions of infertility. Instead I' going to provide you with links so that you can see for yourself:
CDC
ASRM

It can't be disputed. Infertility is a DISEASE and is defined as a disease by our FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

So then it's logical that if infertility is a disease, then it should be covered by insurance.

Minnesota Petition

Our hope Minnesota wishes you a Happy New Year. Now back to business. We have posted our online petition for infertility coverage in Minnesota. Click here to sign the petition.
This is a great way to show your support for this important issue.
There's also an online petition for federal coverage. Click here to sign the federal petition.