Hi Brian Lehrer here, up next Brian Lehrer weekend.

Three of our favorite segments from the week packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend.

So enjoy and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m. on WNY and WNYC.org. It's the Brian Lair show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. Now a deep dive into

egg freezing. A thoroughly research piece in VOCs explores what its headline deems the

failed promise of egg freezing. That's also the headline, the failed promise of egg freezing.

Once hailed as a means for women to take control of their

fertility and usher in a new gender, a new ear I should say of gender parity, the

reality has proven more complicated. The piece in Vox comes to us from senior correspondent Anna North.

She writes that though many patients express a sense of relief

after making the decision to freeze their eggs, for many years there wasn't enough data because

not enough people had undergone the procedure to know how well it was working out in the long

run.

Now, however, Anna writes, a new picture is emerging. So in one the Fertility Center, the chance of a live birth from frozen eggs was just 39%, so way under half.

What's more, Anna Wright's far from ushering in a new era of gender equality, some experts say the procedure serves as another way for

companies to make money from stoking women's anxieties.

Let's hear more now from Anna

welcome to WNC glad you could join us.

Hi, thanks so much for having me.

And listeners will invite your calls with your stories right away

212 433 WNYC, Helpena North report this story or share your experiences

of egg freezing. Was it successful? Did it give you a sense of control over your life or career?

Was it a stoking of anxieties, as I referred to a minute ago, that some experts say that

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