In Vitro Fertilization

June 3, 2026

I Tried to Have a Kid With My Best Friend. It Got Complicated.

‘Most stories about wanting a kid end with having a kid.’ Illustration by Brian Rea Joseph Osmundson spent years joking about having a baby with his […]
May 20, 2026

Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Misdirected Midlife Crisis’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Brian Rea All Those Notes My daughter, age 44, has died. One thing […]
December 4, 2022

A Previvor’s Tale

A television writer deals with too much plot. A storyteller wants to know the future. That’s our job, after all: to map out the plot. We […]
July 22, 2020

The Fight for Fertility Equality

While plenty of New Yorkers have formed families by gestational surrogacy, they almost certainly worked with carriers living elsewhere. Because until early April, paying a surrogate […]