Does egg freezing give false hope to prospective parents?
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2019
- The fertility business is booming-egg freezing is being sold to a generation of men and women increasingly interested in deferring parenthood. But is optimistic marketing giving false hope? Read more here: trib.al/7K9Lw4O
On July 25th, 1978, in Oldham, England, a baby girl named Louise was born. Unlike any baby before her, Louise was conceived in a Petri dish by a remarkable new procedure known as in-vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
Since then, millions of so-called ‘test-tube babies’ have been born. Today, 1 in 60 American births is thanks to IVF and other fertility treatments, which have spawned a booming new industry in many different countries.
But are fertility businesses making promises they can’t keep? Sacha Nauta can help answer that. She’s the public policy editor at The Economist.
IVF provides a valuable option for people who for whatever reason are unable to conceive. But there’s another emerging market.
That’s freezing of egg or sperm cells for IVF in the future, often years later. Egg-freezing is a relatively new procedure, and was officially considered “experimental” in America until 2012.
this is what egg-freezing businesses appear to promise: a chance to put parenthood “on ice”, which appeals to young people who are increasingly interested in having children later, for a variety of reasons.
And women are increasingly buying in. The number of egg-freezing procedures has grown rapidly over the past decade.
The process isn’t cheap: egg-freezing can cost $15,000-$20,000 USD per cycle, which is a single batch of eggs. It often requires multiple cycles to increase chances of success.
Egg-freezing and similar services are part of the burgeoning women’s health industry dubbed “femtech”, and are attracting plenty of interest from investors.
Investments in fertility firms grew from less than $200m in 2009 to $624m in 2018. Investors are attracted to the growth prospects, high profit margins and recession-proof demand.
Investors, businesses, and prospective parents all stand to benefit. But, the reliability of these services might be oversold.
Birth rates from frozen eggs should be taken with a grain of salt: most women who have had their eggs frozen have not yet retrieved them, so the sample sizes are small. It’s just too soon to draw reliable conclusions. Still, clinics might misrepresent the data to encourage freezing.
There’s also a lack of sufficient regulation of fertility services, especially in America.
So, what’s needed from the fertility sector?
My wife and I had our IVF twins in our late 40s in 2008!!!
Our last try for a girl we had 5 older sons.....We were still felt blessed....................Life is family,Family is Life! :)
Why r u fcuking our planet earth
@@bhuvvai5491 you should sterilizer yourself to prove how much you really believe what you are saying!! :) Oh I live live in North Western NC USA,it like the culture is a beautiful place... A window to Our World......ruclips.net/video/tH51t4noY68/видео.html
We love/we live/we travel! All 9 of US!
So happy for you
@@xijinping1474 your country real needs this
was that through frozen eggs? or donor?
*These people are creating Freezas from DBZ without knowing it.*
Where's the evidence there is widespread dishonesty in the sector? This is really poor reporting. Just this one woman's opinion, and she is a journalist, not an expert. She should present facts, not make general statements without backing them up.
How is that a recession proof investment with high margind? I would consider it to be luxury consumption, stopping if income falls (since in the end one can get babys for free, thus one spends the left money rather on other things that became relaticely more expensive). Additionally, 25 year olds as main customers are not the demographic with most purchasing power, so I guess margins are constraint, especially when expecting future regulations. So what is the rationale behind the assertion I questioned?
It's about medical business and big money in the USA. Did she really say honesty? Such naivety.
Egg freezing costs 2500 euros in cyprus and for women younger than 35, the probabilty of pregnancy is quite high in my practice with the liberal laws on the number of embryos to transfer each time. Egg freezing is for young women who have a lot to achieve to keep their eggs in terms of quality as she were in their 20s not to need donor eggs in future. I found this video biased in saying as if the industry is conning people which something that doesnt work🤷🏽♂️. On the contrary, frozen eggs when thawed have 90% recovery rate.
Thx for this info 🫶 but keep in mind people confuse the towing-rates with the success rates (as in baby take home rates€
If they purchased thanks
Someone needs to invent a proper permanent contraceptive, that isn't a rubber or expensive operation.
Mushroom Tea , why won’t you?)
This is about preserving your bloodline not ending it
Honesty won’t be there until regulations come
freaking expenditure habits
Allright thats about it I wont ever interfere again and are my guns even purchased already?? Cuz iam gonna need em Im serious about working counterrorism in Europe I want my personal guns with the red laser aim/ Scope and silencer that one is optional for the desert eagle
Adopt.
Seriously
@@tristanfuentes5068 100%
Miki Marble nope
Unfortunately (at least in America) they've make adoption a very difficult, long, expensive and sometimes outright impossible process.
biotechnology
the least thing we need
wait femtech??
Look I will throw in this for you CNN for free thats for you just help me
Women: we don't need men
Men: 👌 okay
I’m first
Yes
People should start adopting kids from third world countries then they will have 100% success rate.
kovid sharma not true
They don’t. Adopting is really hard
And have you ever googled world iq map? There is a reason the third world countries are the way they are
I bet all the people who are doing Ivf are teens
There's no point in freezing eggs. The premise is to wait to have a child, but by that time you'll be too old to be a decent parent anyway.
Better to have a child as a 50 year old with a stability then an 18 year old without. The idea that only young people could be decent parents is stupid
@@raptorjesus6398 If you have 20-40k to blow on freezing your eggs you're probably pretty stable though.
@@Feeltheh8 Unless it's a loan lol 😂
Young people don't always make the best parents
@@raptorjesus6398 That's a false dichotomy, but alright.
Loool who tf has failed in life so bad you want a 30yr old woman’s frozen eggs.
Why so sexist against a womans age?
Maybe his 32 yo husband who loves her and wants to have kids with her...let's not forget.. egg freezing is also for women who undergo chemo and want to preserve eggs before they get affected by chemo