In the article "Time to chill? ," author Nancy Hass shares many factual details of egg freezing technology. The article also includes a personal story about egg-freezing technology to offer expectations during the process. The author shares information on two different egg freezing methods; first is the freezing of a woman's egg, therefore stopping the biological clock for women and the other method is an IVF( In vitro fertilization) which freezes embryos. Freezing embryos has been an option for women since the early 1980s. Doctors plant the multiple embryos in the woman's uterus and see which embryo develops and survives over time. Since the year 2007, more than 1, 500 children have been born from IVF (Hass, N. "Time to Chill?" 3) And the birthrate of eggs extracted from women under the age of 36 is about 50 percent. Although the IVF rate is very good, there is more of a demand for egg freezing just based on population. There is a heavy risk in taking this procedure, it may make a woman pregnant but there are also many side effects that are painful. Also there is a chance that the embryos do not work, and anyone has a chance of losing thousands of dollars. Freezing embryos is just one option of the few that women can use to prolong their chances of having children. (Hass, N. "Time to chill?" 1-2) Most women refer to using egg freezing as their primary choice to have children over IVF. In many ways women in their thirties use this as a backup plan just in case they are too old by the time they find their mate. Women go through this process in order to have a child that they can call their own. The article tells a story of a woman named Leah who states: "I want to feel there is a bac...
