Studies of women's attitudes to 'social egg freezing' find reasons differ with age
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 06:14
in Psychology & Sociology
Women of different ages differ in their reasons for wishing to undergo egg freezing, show two studies presented to the 26th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology Monday. A large number of female university students would be prepared to undertake egg freezing in an attempt to combine career success and motherhood, said Dr Srilatha Gorthi, a research fellow at the Leeds Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Leeds, UK, adding that her team's research emphasised the importance of educating young women about their biological clocks in order that they could take informed decisions about future reproduction...