What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Would You Choose Your Child’s Sex?
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The ability to choose the sex of your child through IVF is banned in most of the world. In America, however, parents can—and do—for a price.
Guest: Emi Nietfeld, writer and software engineer, author of “The Parents Who Want Daughters—and Daughters Only” for Slate.
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| 0:38.6 | When Amy Yin thought about getting pregnant, she knew exactly what she wanted. |
| 0:48.5 | So Amy is a 32-year-old software engineer and venture capitalist. |
| 0:54.5 | She spent her 20s exploring the world, |
| 0:57.7 | building a company, selling a company, |
| 1:00.3 | and she's always been a huge advocate for women, especially at work. |
| 1:04.0 | That's reporter Emmy Neitfeld who spent time talking with Amy about her plans. |
| 1:11.0 | She's also always imagined herself having at least two, but ideally three daughters. |
| 1:17.5 | And so first her company offered egg freezing as a benefit and later they offered embryo freezing and she like |
| 1:27.4 | many young women working in tech learned that she could take advantage of those |
| 1:31.4 | benefits even if she wasn't struggling with infertility, |
| 1:35.2 | to make sure that she had the daughters she had always dreamed about. And so now Amy's plan is to use her frozen eggs in IVF in order to have at least two daughters. |
| 1:47.0 | If you undergo in vitro fertilization, you can know a lot of things about the |
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