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Yale Q&A: 'Motherhood on Ice' - Exploring Why Women Freeze Their Eggs
May 11, 2023
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 11 (TNStalk) (TNSbook) -- Yale University issued the following Q&A on May 9, 2023, with anthropologist Marcia C. Inhorn:

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Anthropologist Marcia Inhorn discusses her new book examining why women freeze their eggs.

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Oocyte vitrification, a method to flash-freeze human eggs so they can be stored for later use, emerged in the early 2000s. Initially, the technology was limited to women undergoing chemotherap . . .

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