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60 Minutes

05/04/2025: The Rule of Law and Freezing the Biological Clock

60 Minutes

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42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On the campaign trail, President Trump vowed to wield the power of the presidency to go after his perceived enemies. Now in the White House, Trump is using Executive Orders to target some of the biggest law firms in the country that he accuses of “weaponizing” the justice system against him. Correspondent Scott Pelley reports on the law firms picked out by the President and the different ways they’re responding to White House pressure. Fertility rates in the United States are currently near historic lows, largely because fewer women are having children in their 20s. As women delay starting families, many are opting for egg freezing, the process of retrieving and freezing unfertilized eggs, to preserve their fertility for the future. Does egg freezing provide women with a way to pause their biological clock? Correspondent Lesley Stahl interviews women who have decided to freeze their eggs and explores what the process entails physically, emotionally, and financially.  She also speaks with fertility specialists and an ethicist about success rates, equity issues, and the increasing market potential of egg freezing. This is a double-length segment. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.9

Someone must stand up to this because it is a direct attack on the whole functioning of our judicial system.

0:45.3

President Trump is threatening law firms with destruction through his executive orders,

0:51.3

but some are fighting and winning so far in court.

0:56.0

So, of course, I am worried. I'd be an idiot not to be worried. The question, though, is what do you do?

1:02.0

Let's get some eggs. Let's go. Let's get some eggs.

1:06.0

More and more American women are freezing their eggs to preserve their fertility.

1:11.6

Those are the eggs.

1:12.6

Could egg freezing offer what previous generations only dreamed of,

1:17.6

the chance to put the biological clock on ice?

1:21.6

There definitely is that TikTok clock, and I'm not ready quite yet.

1:26.6

I think that egg freezing is as revolutionary as the pill was in 1960s and 70s.

1:32.3

It's as revolutionary as the pill.

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I'm Leslie Stahl.

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I'm Bill Whitaker.

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I'm Anderson Cooper.

1:41.3

I'm Sharon Alfonci.

1:42.3

I'm John Wertheim.

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