Fertility doctors are bullying women into IVF



In her late teens, Catie VanDamme was diagnosed with endometriosis, which is a disease that can make it more difficult for a woman to successfully conceive.

At 29 years old, after she got married and before she and her husband had started trying for a baby, she decided to go talk to a provider, who ran some blood work.

The doctor explained that her hormone levels, which dictate “how many eggs you could have or will have,” were low.

“It was used as a scare tactic,” she tells Stuckey. “The doctor that I signed up to see just took me on this path of, ‘Well, this is a really huge issue that your numbers are low,’ and really, it was the sense of ‘You needed to start IVF a couple of years ago’ type.”

VanDamme describes the feeling she had sitting in that office as a “gut punch.”


“What was most jarring to me was the push towards making embryos right away. It was like I went in for blood work and all of a sudden I was supposed to be scheduling appointments to come back to start the process,” she continues.

Despite the doctor’s insistence on beginning the IVF process immediately, VanDamme began to question the morality of putting human embryos on ice and whether or not there were other interventions possible to help her production of the necessary hormones, and she decided to get more opinions.

“We went to a third doctor,” she tells Stuckey. “And that was probably the most jarring experience.”

“It was, again, the same story of, ‘Okay, your blood work is kind of iffy, you should have started IVF a long time ago, but are you sure you even want to go through with this?’” she explains, telling Stuckey that the doctor then told her couples spend thousands for babies who die or are born with birth defects.

He also asked her if she was sure she even wanted to be a mom, said that he himself had “a really annoying niece,” and said that she could travel with her husband instead.

“It felt like I was sitting across from death,” she says. “I think he has seen so much carnage of what he has done at the sake of making money and playing God.”

However, despite the incessant fearmongering, VanDamme went to see a doctor who specialized in NaPro Technology — and was pregnant a month later.

“I worked with a provider to chart my own cycle, and it was done through something called the Creighton method,” she tells Stuckey. “He did something as simple as doing a follicle scan with me for a couple cycles and found out that I just wasn’t ovulating correctly. My hormones were out of whack.”

“All he did was put me on some progesterone medication. It was $4 with my insurance,” she explains. “He told me to go on a paleo diet and take a couple of these different medications that help with ovulation, and we’ll continue to see what happens.”

“And in like two months, I was pregnant,” she adds.

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Soothe menstrual inflammation with this little-known holistic secret



Every woman gets their period, but very few understand it.

And while many choose to use artificial fixes like hormonal birth control to relieve period symptoms, this doesn’t actually regulate or fix the menstrual cycle — it simply shuts the menstrual cycle down.

“A natural menstrual cycle is beneficial for women, because it’s how we make hormones,” naturopathic doctor Lara Briden tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable,” explaining that to give women birth control to solve all their problems is a “reckless approach.”

And there are other solutions to issues like painful periods that aren’t birth control.


“I definitely have friends who say, ‘I just have horrible periods, they’re really heavy, I have horrible, debilitating cramps,’” Stuckey says. “A lot of doctors will say the only remedy is birth control, but you have a natural approach to that, so where should women start if they’re in any of those boats?”

“I’ll give you two examples, which are kind of my favorite ones because they can really move the needle on symptoms,” Briden says. “If young women or teenagers are having very heavy periods, painful periods, one of the things I have learned early on, and then I’ve just seen in practice again and again, is that it can improve by switching the kind of dairy cow’s dairy they’re eating.”

According to Briden, unlike “A2 milk,” certain dairy proteins can be “quite inflammatory for some people” and that inflammation “can manifest as heavier flow, or more painful flow, or premenstrual mood symptoms.”

“Another example is the nutrient zinc. A zinc supplement can relieve period pain,” she explains. “There’s been at least one clinical trial where they tested zinc in direct comparison to the pill for period pain, and they found that zinc worked as well as the pill.”

Zinc is not only cheaper than the pill, but Briden notes that it also “doesn’t shut down the menstrual cycle.”

“So it sounds like there are a lot of potential natural remedies for the menstrual issues that people have that aren’t suppressing someone’s very necessary ovulatory cycle,” Stuckey comments.

“It’s 2025, we don’t have to shut down women’s entire hormonal systems just to avoid pregnancy,” Briden agrees.

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SSRIs are rewiring babies’ brains — and killing their moms



The pharmaceutical industry reigns supreme over us all — including expecting mothers — and Dr. Adam Urato, a fetal and maternal medicine specialist, is gravely concerned by the lack of informed consent given to pregnant women concerning their medications.

Namely, SSRI antidepressants.

“The main one I’m focusing on currently is the use of antidepressants during pregnancy, because we’re seeing so much of that in the general population, but in particular, in pregnancy as well,” Urato tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.”

“I tell my patients that medications are chemicals. They’re not naturally occurring substances. They’re not like oranges growing on an orange tree. They’re synthesized in a chemical manufacturing facility,” he explains, noting that in any manufacturing plant, you’ll see workers wearing masks and goggles for a reason.


“Those medications are going to cross over from the mom into the baby. A drug like Zofran has an impact on the serotonin receptors. Serotonin is a crucial cell-signaling molecule. Serotonin is crucial for fetal development.”

“So if you’ve got this delicate system, intricate system, that relies on serotonin and other neurotransmitters,” he continues, “and then you disrupt it with chemicals like Zofran or like the SSRI antidepressants or other antidepressants, it’s going to have an impact.”

While these medications are intended to help patients with what’s going on in their mind, it affects their entire body.

“There’s evidence, for example, that patients on antidepressants, on the SSRI antidepressants, have increased rates of bleeding,” he tells Stuckey, explaining that it’s because SSRIs have a huge impact on platelet function.

The drugs also have a great impact on the gut and bone strength, which leaves many SSRI patients with a higher rate of fractures in their bones and higher rates of osteoporosis. But it gets worse.

“We’re seeing increased rates of miscarriage, so the woman loses her pregnancy early. We’re seeing increased rates of birth defects. It’s been clearly shown with some of the drugs, things like heart defects,” Urato explains. “We’re seeing increased rates in preterm birth, we see increased rates in PPROM, breaking your water early, having the rupture of the membranes. We see increased rates of low birthweight babies, small for size; they didn’t grow well likely because of the impact of the drugs on the placenta late in pregnancy.”

“We see an increase in the disease called pre-eclampsia, which causes high blood pressure in women, and proteinuria, protein in the urine, we see higher rates of that in the women on the SSRIs,” he continues. “We see higher rates of postpartum hemorrhage, there’s higher rates of women bleeding who are on SSRIs.”

“Postpartum hemorrhage is one of the leading causes of maternal morbidity and mortality,” he adds.

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SCANDAL: Texas DEMOCRAT holds SECRET meetings on how to spend YOUR taxpayer money



Rep. Armando Walle isn’t just a Democrat; he's also the chairman of a subcommittee in Texas that helps determine how taxpayer dollars are spent in the state — and a radical leftist.

“In fact, on his own website, he boasts being an active member of not just the Democratic caucus, also the Women’s Health caucus and the LGBTQ caucus,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” comments.

Walle has also been posting on X about his meeting with Planned Parenthood advocates.

“Received a visit from Planned Parenthood @PPFA advocates who are urging Texas to prioritize women’s health. I am a strong advocate and ally for women’s healthcare,” he wrote in the post, which was accompanied by pictures of him with the advocates.


“Strong advocate for women’s health care, which we all know is really just code for women killing their babies in the womb. Somehow, we’re calling that health care now. I would call it anything but,” Gonzales says.

“But this is who Republican Dustin Burrows, the speaker of the House, has empowered as a chairman. Does this look conservative to you? Does this sound like something that you voted for? A radical leftist in charge of giving reports on how Texas should spend our taxpayer money? Is that what you voted for?” she continues.

Walle has also allegedly violated the Texas House rules three separate days just this month, when he arranged committee meetings for a total of over 15 hours without any audio or video recordings of those meetings — despite House rules requiring those recordings to be available to the public.

“That isn’t asking the Texas House to go above and beyond, to say, ‘Hey guys, Texas taxpayers, we are paying for you guys to be here right now. All that we ask is that whenever you hold your little meetings that you press record on the camera, you press record on the audio, you got your microphones on, and you speak into the microphone so all of the taxpayers across the state can come in and watch,’” Gonzales says.

“Because that is how the government should be,” she says, adding, “It should be 100% fully transparent.”

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