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Remy Ma Plans to Start a Fund for Women Who Can’t Conceive

Remy Ma spoke to Essence on her televised miscarriage situation, and what she realized about health care in America. 

Remy opened up about her ectopic pregnancy, which resulted in a miscarriage. After having an emergency surgery, she discovered her fallopian tubes were damaged and she wouldn’t be able to have any more children naturally. She revealed this while filming “Love & Hip Hop.”

“First I was distraught, I was embarrassed, I was ashamed, I felt less than a woman and [the doctor] assured me that was no way to feel and that for a certain amount of thousands of dollars, it can be fixed. And because I have the finances, I never even thought twice about it,” she told Essence. “It wasn’t until I publicly spoke about it that I realized how many women are in the same predicament as me where they actually can have children, they just need an assist from medical procedures and they can’t because they are not financially stable enough to do it,” she said.

Remy called out the health care industry and lawmakers for being silent on this issue. Although more women are starting to use these methods to expand their family, many still can’t afford it. Medical procedures like in vitro fertilization could cost anywhere from $12,000 to $17,000 per treatment.

“It’s just weird to me that if you want to terminate a pregnancy, you could use your health insurance; however, if you wanted to conceive, health insurance doesn’t cover that,” she said. “So I’m looking at all of these politicians that claim that they’re pro-life and they want to eradicate women having the choice to terminate their pregnancies, but if you’re pro-life, why would you not set up something so women who can’t conceive and women who want to be mothers can do so.”

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