Egg Freezing, Frozen Eggs

The struggle to conceive with frozen eggs

Source: The Washington Post

Brigitte Adams became the poster child for freezing your eggs. But things didn’t quite work out how she imagined.

Brigitte Adams caused a sensation four years ago when she appeared on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek under the headline, “Freeze your eggs, Free your career.” She was single and blond, a Vassar graduate who spoke fluent Italian, and was working in tech marketing for a number of prestigious companies. Her story was one of empowerment, how a new fertility procedure was giving women more choices, as the magazine noted provocatively, “in the quest to have it all.”

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Egg Freezing, Frozen Eggs, Ireland, Sperm Donor

Ireland -Use of a dead partner’s sperm to be allowed under reproduction law

Source: Irish Times

The use of frozen sperm, eggs or embryos after a person’s death by their partner will be permitted following a one-year grieving period under draft legislation, the Oireachtas health committee has heard.

The State’s chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan briefed the committee on the process of drafting the forthcoming Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR) Bill on Wednesday.

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