There is no lack of real news in the world but egg freezing has been in the spotlight AGAIN over the last weeks. Apparently Apple and Google are offering egg freezing as a benefit. I am going to repost a column I wrote for cluborlov.com because I want to get my voice out to as wide an audience as possible on this issue. Reproductive technologies are rapidly turning into the key tools of female oppression, in spite of a few privileged women who can use them for liberation. The average age at which an American woman freezes her eggs is currently 37. At this age the change that these frozen eggs will lead to a live birth is, by our current best estimates under 20%. These are the cold hard facts.
In the name of female liberation, men now manipulate women away from reproduction all the time. In the past irresponsible men got women pregnant and left. Now bad boys won't even do that- instead demanding sex without reproduction, then leaving partners as their eggs run dry and looks wane. Companies like Apple may become as irresponsible by encouraging women to put work before reproduction with false hope that babies can be accomplished at a later date, which of course will never come as long as quarterly profits must be maximized.
Here is a link to my column on this brave sad new world of "equality." It is worth noting that far from increasing equality these technologies widen the gap between the haves and have-nots in several ways. While egg freezing offers miraculous hope for cancer patients who would otherwise lose all reproductive capacity it does not offer hope for women who want the equal rights to men in work and family.
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