The Infertility Voice™ is an online hub for the infertility community – by the infertility community. Say hello to our founder, Keiko Zoll and meet our Contributors – they kick ass. We openly invite our readers and interested writers to share their voices with us.
Our Mission
The Infertility Voice™ seeks to free infertility from cultural shame and silence and to catalyze an inclusive, compassionate, respectful dialogue about infertility as a disease. At its heart, The Infertility Voice™ isn’t just one voice: it’s about all of our voices, experiences, stories, and journeys.
What We Believe
- Infertility is a life-altering disease.
- You deserve respect, dignity, and compassion.
- Your emotional experience is real and valid.
- All infertility stories matter—including yours.
- You have the right to equal access to and delivery of care.
- Family building must be grounded in safe, legal and ethical care and practice.
- Hope is not a four-letter word.
- Personhood legislation is harmful to the infertility community. I do not support personhood legislation and actively advocate against it. I post news, updates, and community calls to action to mobilize page followers in support of this belief. I support similar anti-personhood positions statements made by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association. You are more than welcome here if you are pro-personhood and/or anti-choice and you must respect that we will have to agree to disagree.
A little history…
It all started on March 18, 2009: the day I was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure. As a bewildered 26-year old newlywed, I began an anonymous infertility blog, Hannah Wept, Sarah Laughed, on Blogger. When my What IF: A Portrait of Infertility video went viral within the online infertility community in 2010, I began writing under my real name and publicly sharing my infertility journey, in all its messy, emotional glory. In 2012, I relaunched my entire website as The Infertility Voice™.
Since then, The Infertility Voice™ has been through many site designs and iterations, but its roots have always been as an online empowerment resource for infertility patients seeking support, compassion, and hope along their family-building journeys. Everything you read here grew out of my personal journey to reclaim my identity in the wake of my infertility diagnosis and to share that knowledge with others.
Having been lucky enough to reach motherhood, I offer this online space in gratitude to those who supported me during our infertility journey and in humble service to those who are still walking their own journeys.
Keiko Zoll
Founder, Editor-in-Chief, Writer, Designer, Infertility Survivor, Mom, & Maker of Pancakes
