Women Hope Science Will Successfully Put Fertility in Deep Freeze. Judith Graham.
by Graham, Judith; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 73Human Relations. Publisher: Chicago Tribune, 2004ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Cryopreservation of organs, tissues, etc | Fertility clinics | Frozen ova | Human reproductive technology | Medical innovationsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Christina Jones wants to have it all--a career, a husband, kids--but she's 34 and single. So Jones recently had medical specialists extract eggs from her ovaries and freeze them in liquid nitrogen. Jones calls this 'fertility insurance,' a way of keeping her future reproductive options open as she gets older. And she's betting, as the founder of a new company marketing egg-freezing services, that many women will want to follow in her path." (CHICAGO TRIBUNE) This article discusses how as "fertility programs across the country are gearing up to start experimental egg-freezing," the largely unregulated field of infertility has scientists concerned "about promoting what they say is an unproven and even risky technology to healthy women."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Women Hope Science Will Successfully Put Fertility in Deep Freeze, June 25, 2004; pp. n.p..
"Christina Jones wants to have it all--a career, a husband, kids--but she's 34 and single. So Jones recently had medical specialists extract eggs from her ovaries and freeze them in liquid nitrogen. Jones calls this 'fertility insurance,' a way of keeping her future reproductive options open as she gets older. And she's betting, as the founder of a new company marketing egg-freezing services, that many women will want to follow in her path." (CHICAGO TRIBUNE) This article discusses how as "fertility programs across the country are gearing up to start experimental egg-freezing," the largely unregulated field of infertility has scientists concerned "about promoting what they say is an unproven and even risky technology to healthy women."
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