Freezing eggs and buying time - why are more women choosing IVF?

Why is it becoming more common for women to freeze their eggs?  A couple in the US has just welcomed twins into the world using embryos made 30 years ago. The twins have been named the ‘oldest babies’ to be born after the eggs were kept in ice for 3 decades. 

We’re joined by Molly Johnston, a bioethics lecturer at Monash University and she’s been working in the IVF field for the last five years to find out if this is something that could happen in Australia.

In this episode of the Briefing we explore the growing popularity of women choosing to freeze their eggs and have babies at a later stage in life.

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