February 22, 2011

This Women's Health Magazine article investigates how the booming egg marketplace is affecting reproduction-in both good and bad ways. Some people think egg freezing is an unnatural way of tampering with the body's biological clock, or just some sort of modern indulgence. But Nicole Noyes, M.D., a professor and reproductive endocrinologist at the New York University Fertility Center, bristles at the suggestion that women are freezing their eggs just so they can cavalierly delay motherhood until it's more convenient. "In general, women, like men, should be able to have babies when they are truly ready," she says. "What egg freezing is doing is providing women with reproductive autonomy."

Women's Health Magazine Article: Your Eggs - Buy Sell Freeze?