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What You Need to Know Before You Freeze Your Eggs


Celebrities do it (or wish they had), influencers won't stop talking about it, and clinics will all but tell you to do it now. The devil, though, is in the details.

But I realize that if I produce a research paper out of my tote bag, in the eyes of the audience, the presenters run a clinic, and I’m just an unknown woman with a bright orange umbrella. Modern reproductive technologies like IVF and egg freezing are worth celebrating, as they help millions of people start a family in a way that was impossible in previous decades. Egg freezing could also fall out of favor for cultural reasons, if governments introduced better childcare policies and addressed wealth inequalities and if workplaces acknowledged the importance of families, so that people no longer delayed having children and being a single parent would become easier.

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