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Egg Freezing the New Work Perk

October 21, 2022
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Large companies have begun offering more fertility-related workplace perks as the number of women freezing their eggs rises significantly, and the pressure to attract staff forces businesses to develop more creative benefits. In Australia’s second most populated city alone, egg freezing tripled from pre-pandemic levels, with nearly 5,000 women currently storing their frozen eggs, according to…

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Certain Cancer Immunotherapy Treatments Impair Fertility: Study

August 29, 2022
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Australian researchers have found that some immunotherapy treatments for cancer can damage fertility, prompting a call for further research and preventative measures such as freezing eggs. A pre-clinical trial, led by experts from Monash University’s Biomedicine Discovery Institute and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, demonstrated that a common type of immunotherapy drug known as immune…

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Want to Freeze Your Eggs? First, Face Reality

June 1, 2022
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Commentary In a recent op-ed for the Washington Examiner, I outlined the reasons why a number of major U.S. companies are in favor of abortion. Interestingly, many of the very same companies are also in favor of egg freezing. For example, Facebook, Apple, Google, Uber, and Yahoo all offer female employees the option of freezing their eggs….

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