{"id":801031,"date":"2026-07-15T03:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801031\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T03:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:20:09","slug":"why-the-left-hates-the-medicine-that-made-me-a-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801031\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Left Hates the Medicine That Made Me a Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just over a year ago, I stayed up until 2 a.m. editing a story, because the deadline was harder than most: The writer, Madeleine Kearns, was on the brink of giving birth. And the story in question was about what she had gone through to bring her baby into the world. Many of you read\u2014and loved!\u2014that story<\/a>, but for those who didn\u2019t: After struggling with pain and infertility, which no mainstream doctor could conclusively explain, Maddy sought out something called \u201crestorative reproductive medicine\u201d in order to conceive her daughter.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a branch of medicine that\u2019s often misrepresented in left-leaning outlets as conservative quackery, because it was pioneered by Catholic surgeons as an alternative to in vitro fertilization (IVF), to which the Church is opposed. Just last week, it was characterized in \u201cThe New York Times\u201d as \u201can approach that many medical experts argue may give false hope to couples who have not been able to have children.\u201d But for Maddy, it felt like her only hope.<\/p>\n

And it worked. Her daughter was born exactly a year ago tomorrow. (Happy birthday to her!) At the time, Maddy and I spoke a lot about how, even though she sought the treatment because she\u2019s Catholic, it could help so many women who aren\u2019t, for whom IVF isn\u2019t an option. But in her piece today\u2014a response to the \u201cTimes\u201d article\u2014Maddy argues that politicizing this treatment could deter people from seeking it. \u2014Freya Sanders<\/p>\n

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The left-leaning press is wildly suspicious about the medical intervention that allowed me to become a mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cA faction of Christian conservatives and MAHA-heads have joined forces to advocate for \u2018restorative reproductive medicine,\u2019\u201d warns <\/a>The Cut<\/a>, explaining that its proponents operate \u201con the flawed assumption that infertility can be treated with lifestyle modifications like diet, exercise, and cycle charting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the <\/a>Guardian<\/a> wonders if it is \u201cthe right\u2019s path to limiting IVF.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, just last week, The New York Times described it as<\/a> \u201can approach that many medical experts argue may give false hope to couples who have not been able to have children.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just over a year ago, I stayed up until 2 a.m. editing a story, because the deadline was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-801031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}