So-called ‘social’ egg freezing is on the rise, thanks to technological advances and the commercial realisation of financial gain. Unfertilised egg freezing was previously a desperate option considered by girls and women about to undergoing chemotherapy and seeking to preserve their fertility.
However the impetus for change came in 2012 when the procedure was declared to be no longer experimental by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. By 2014, Facebook and Apple were offering egg freezing as a company ‘benefit’.
Egg freezing is a medical solution to a social problem, which doesn’t address the underlying causes of older motherhood
