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  • No, Egg Freezing Won’t Let Women Have It All

    10/23/2014 7:15:53 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 23 replies
    National Review ^ | 10/23/2014 | Madison V. Peace
    The next frontier of feminism isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Last week, NBC News reported that Facebook and Apple are adding a rather pricey benefit to their health-care packages in order to attract and retain female employees: up to $20,000 in egg-freezing coverage, which can be used for non-medical reasons. Currently offered to Facebook employees as a surrogacy benefit and being rolled out as a fertility benefit for Apple employees starting in January, egg freezing may seem at first glance like just another line item on the list of perks employees of Silicon Valley enjoy. But women who...
  • Mom to Freeze Own Eggs So Toddler Can Create Family

    06/10/2011 11:33:24 AM PDT · by TheDingoAteMyBaby · 38 replies
    CBS News ^ | January 10, 2011 | David W Freeman
    Moms give birth to sons or daughters - pretty straightforward stuff. But when one English toddler grows up and starts a family, her child will be her own half-sibling. At least that's the plan. The toddler, two-year-old Mackenzie Stephens, was born without ovaries, so her 25-year-old mother, Penny Jarvis, intends to freeze her own eggs so that Mackenzie can use them someday to start her own family, the Daily Mail reported. Jarvis, of Sheffield, England, told the paper she was devastated when she learned that Mackenzie would be infertile - the result of Turner Syndrome, a female-only genetic disorder that...