Leaders of a little-known alternative reproductive health movement are getting a boost from Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s rise to power — even as their movement is simultaneously co-opted by conservatives who want to use it to marginalize in vitro fertilization.
Advocates for restorative reproductive medicine say it offers a cheap, holistic way to treat reproductive problems like repeated miscarriages, endometriosis and polycystic ovarian syndrome. The MAHA movement seems to agree: Last month, leaders of the International Institute for Restorative Reproductive Medicine took part in a roundtable discussion on women’s health and fertility hosted by the MAHA Institute and The Heritage Foundation.
Tracey Parnell, a doctor and IIRRM’s global director of communications and development, said IIRRM is eager to leverage its overlap with the MAHA movement to increase awareness of alternative reproductive health practices and promote research into how drugs affect female bodies differently than male bodies.