social egg freezing is a hideous fertility gamble | viv groskop /

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Infertility and attitudes towards working parents end people having children. Women paying thousands to do some eggs on ice ‘just in case’ won’t change thatIt was bound to happen. A pop-up shop for a debate on egg-freezing,designed to respond to “growing public interest” in “social” egg-freezing – ie the freezing of a woman’s eggs before there is any medical reason to do so, and before she has any plans to start a family.“Social egg-freezing is a relatively current offer, or ” say the directors of Liminal Space,a consultancy that “specialises in curating learning experiences”. But, they add, or it’s something that may soon become “as revolutionary to women’s choices as the pill”. The project,Timeless, will “pop up” in London from the end of the month. It is fraction-funded by the Wellcome Trust.
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Source: theguardian.com

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