Would You Freeze and Share Your Eggs?

The Cut

New York Magazine

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🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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More women are putting off having kids, which means the egg freezing business is booming. But with the process costing thousands and thousands of dollars, egg freezing is mostly a luxury good at this point. Unless you're willing to donate your eggs to someone else at the same time you freeze them for yourself. The Cut’s B.A. Parker talks to journalist Anna Louie Sussman about the logistics and ethics of egg freeze and share programs, and how different women feel about giving away their eggs in order to gain a shot at becoming parents later in life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:37.3	Months of lockdown made so much of our lives feel frozen in time, but not us and not
1:43.9	our bodies. We've kept aging, which meant a lot of people looked around during
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1:59.2	in demand, marketing, egg freezing to people. Anno Louise Sussman is a reporter on
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