Women who freeze eggs to delay childbirth often feel regret
(WorldNews Health)

For the past four years, since Facebook and Apple began paying for employees to freeze their eggs to delay childbirth, healthy women are increasingly trying to slow their biological clocks by banking their oocytes, or eggs. But in a new study of more than 200 women who had their eggs removed and frozen as a form of counter-infertility insurance, nearly half expressed regret. “While most women expressed positive reactions of enhanced reproductive options after freezing eggs, we were surprised to discover that for a group of women it wasn’t so simple,” said lead author Dr. Eleni Greenwood, a reproductive endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco...