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Good morning again, everyone. Now a deep dive into egg freezing.

A thoroughly research piece in Vox 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 era, 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 important study conducted in 2022 at the NYU Langone Fertility Center,

the chance of a live birth from frozen eggs was just 39 percent, so way under half. What's more,

Anna writes, 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 North, senior correspondent

at Vox. Hi Anna. Welcome to WNYC. Glad you could join us. Hi. Thanks so much for having me.

And listeners, we'll invite your calls with your stories right away.

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