Our choices have consequences.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

About a decade ago, well-educated women were told that freezing their eggs

would not only allow them to postpone childbearing, it would even empower them.

As the cover of Bloomberg Magazine put it, freeze your eggs, free your career.

Whether it help careers or not, we now know that the $15,000 plus empowerment

often didn't lead to children.

According to The New York Times, only 10 to 15% of these women

returned to thaw their eggs and make babies.

And imagine their disappointment when the thawed eggs failed to produce babies,

especially given how many of these women were past the age of fertility.

Their only remaining choice, give up on having kids,

or turn to additional fertility therapies and pay even more money.

Surprisingly, the vast majority of women who froze their eggs said

they'd recommend it to others because, you know, freedom and career and such.

Well, they got at least the main thing they were aiming at, personal autonomy.

But they didn't get the other thing that many hoped for.

A baby.

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I'm John Stone Street.