Frozen Eggs
From Slate:
Many members … feared women would use egg freezing as “baby insurance” by paying $8,000 to $13,000 per cycle to stash away some good eggs in case their fertility is gone by the time they’re ready to become mothers.
Robin Hanson comments:
Seems docs discourage freezing eggs because they fear people might find, horrors, that it works and adds value. Gee we wouldn’t want people using something that might save the world from a falling fertility collapse! Sigh. Yes, let’s encourage this, and get usage up and costs down.
Let’s not forget at a big cause of falling fertility is women thinking they can wait longer than they can to have kids.
Interesting debate. Frozen eggs don’t bother me, But I sUspect they will bother some of your readers.
Frozen eggs are clearly not an option for poor people.
I’ve often wondered why more profession women — both single and married — don’t harvest several eggs in their early 30s to freeze and store. The alternative is often discovering their only option is to pay some other women for her eggs to use for in vitro fertilization.
Devon, didn’t you notice the $13,000 price tag?
You could always sell a few to pay for the procedure.