Ideas The real reasons why more young women freeze their eggs
Oct 22, 2025
Join Alison Motluk, a journalist and documentary producer, alongside Salima Fakirani, a lawyer sharing her personal egg-freezing journey, and Katie Hammond, a law professor exploring consent in fertility. They dive into the motivations behind egg freezing, from career pressures to personal choice. Marsha Inhorn examines social dynamics affecting women’s decisions, while Lucy Vandeweel discusses the marketing of fertility services and workplace benefits. Together, they question whether egg freezing truly empowers women or perpetuates societal issues.
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Reproductive Suspension Concept
- Egg freezing promises to pause the biological clock by storing eggs for future use.
- It reframes fertility as something you can hedge rather than an inevitable timeline.
Early Exposure At Work
- Salima Fakirani first heard about egg freezing around age 25 while working at a law firm.
- She later considered it seriously as she approached 30 and worried about fertility decline.
Vitrification Changed Everything
- Egg vitrification in the early 2000s made egg freezing reliably usable.
- That technological advance shifted egg freezing from experimental to mainstream fertility preservation.