As a result of her mother suffering from Alzheimer’s and her father ending his life by Voluntarily Stopping Eating & Drinking, Laura has become involved in end-of-life choice advocacy work with A Better Exit and The Switzerland Alternative. 

Since the year 2000, Laura has been featured on network television, including ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS’ The Early Show, been a guest on many radio talk shows, as well as US and Canadian public radio. Her articles and work have appeared in many print and digital media publications internationally, including Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Vice, The Guardian, New York Magazine, Women’s Health South Africa and UK. She has been interviewed on many podcasts to talk about her books.

Childfree means a person who does not want or have children by choice.

Pronatalism is an embedded ideology and set of beliefs that goes back many generations. It includes attitudes, assumptions and policies that are pro-birth, encourage reproduction, and exalts the role of parenthood. Pronatalism is the topic of Laura’s book, The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our Minds From Outmoded Thinking About Parenthood & Reproduction Will Create a Better World. 

In 1973, the National Organization for Non-Parents (NON), celebrated Non-Parents Day on August 1st. Years later, in 2013, Laura spearheaded bringing back this “Day” on August 1 of each year. Laura reinvented the name to “International Childfree Day” and for a decade, led it as an annual recognition amazing childfree people from around the world, and as a wonderful way to foster the acceptance of the childfree choice in today’s society. After 10 years, she passed the baton to Childfree Media Ltd. to guide the event into the future.

Laura can be contacted at [email protected].