Liza Mundy

Radio: Bio of Liza Mundy

July 9, 2006

Liza Mundy is a staff writer for the Washington Post. She began reporting on infertility and poverty in 2003, when, on assignment, she found that low income and limited access to health care exacerbate fertility problems. Reader response to the piece was intense and strongly mixed. "Some sent in donations for women trying to conceive, and then others wrote angry letters to the effect that the poor bred quite enough, thank you, and didn't need more help doing so," says Mundy. "With today's technologies, trying to have a family can be as inflammatory as trying not to have one." She is at work on "Everything Conceivable," a book about assisted reproductive technology and its impact, slated for publication in 2007.

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