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Today, Explained

The failed promise of egg freezing

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Egg freezing was once hailed as a reproductive game changer, but as Vox's Anna North reports, it might not live up to the hype. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! vox.com/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Have you ever wanted to freeze time to preserve life?

0:10.0

For the past 12 or so years the option of freezing eggs has been popular for women who

0:18.0

may want kids but don't want them right now.

0:20.5

If the perennial question is can women have it all?

0:24.0

Could the answer be egg-fruising?

0:27.0

Some companies even started to offer to pay for the procedure,

0:30.0

on average about $11,000 per cycle as a perk of employment.

0:34.3

With the great resignation of full swing,

0:36.6

it's become hard for companies to hang on to their people.

0:40.0

And so now we're seeing egg freezing, IVF and others emerging as a whole new category of benefits up for grabs.

0:47.6

And now a dozen years on we're getting the data on how well this process has been working for women and for families and those outcomes

0:55.0

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