The article discusses the trend of women freezing their eggs as insurance against their biological clock, career development, and the risk of not finding a partner in time. It highlights the lack of information regarding the statistical likelihood of these frozen eggs leading to live births.
I feel for women misled over egg-freezing. If I’d believed doctors during my transition, my kids wouldn’t be here. The starting point is often the question of whether someone, almost always a wealthy, straight, white woman, should freeze her eggs as insurance against her “ biological clock ”, career development and/or the risk of not finding a partner in time with whom to start a family.
Having noticed the trend, I began to see that the same detail was missing from piece after piece: the statistical likelihood of these frozen eggs leading to live births. With, the focus is on affordability and the social factors that are causing so many more people to opt for this treatment, rather than discussion of what happens when someone actually uses the eggs to try to conceive
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