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Facebook and Apple’s decision to offer female employees a $20,000 benefit to freeze their eggs indicates a stunning disregard for the complexities of reproductive biology.
The Center for Genetics and Society issued a news release that listed societal, technological, and biological concerns: the danger of freezing eggs to both the woman and the individual that may one day arise from that egg, and adverse effects that include infertility, cancer, and even death. I’m recovering now from surgery to remove an 18-pound ovarian cyst, so I’m especially sensitive to tinkering with ovaries in any way.
Marcy Darnovsky, PhD, executive director of the Center for Genetics and Society, summed up the bigger picture beautifully, which deals with intent, not biology: “Why are Facebook and Apple endorsing a technique that encourages their employees to put their health at risk? Paying for egg freezing is being presented as a benefit for women, but it may be that discouraging women from balancing work and family is really a benefit to the companies.”
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