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Sep 2025
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The Kindbody Story: E5, The Baby Project

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A Kindbody employee discovers the company is helping an imprisoned billionaire father multiple children through surrogates and egg donors. In this episode, reporter Jackie Davalos investigates Greg Lindberg's "baby project" and what it illustrates about America's unregulated fertility industry.

Read more: IVF Disrupted: The Kindbody Story

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