Posted on 10/14/2014 7:49:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Egg-freezing is expensive: The procedure generally costs $10,000, at minimum, for each round of egg-harvesting—doctors recommend at least two rounds to maximize success—with an additional $500 a year (or more) for storing the eggs. Which is why it has thus far, for the most part, been an option for women who are not just concerned about conception, but able to pay to quell their anxieties.
That may be changing. Now, NBC News reports, some of the biggest firms in Silicon Valley are offering elective egg-freezing as part of their benefits packages. Facebook recently began covering the procedure (under its surrogacy benefit); Apple, starting this January, will do the same (under its fertility benefit). Both companies will cover costs of up to $20,000.
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God bless them — the good people finding homes for them.
In this instance, however it is eggs and not embryos. So far.
Just the eggs right now. Unfertilized.
Facebook and Apple can go freeze their family jewels for all I care ,but are they planning on building a Clone Army
Wow. It’s a lot cheaper to just do it the old fashioned way. And better for the global warmed Earth.
This is a good thing.
We don't need Liberals making babies and raising a new generation of Liberals.!
Can they freeze time as well? I had my children early, yes my wife too, and I can tell you if we had them ten years later we would have gone out of our minds keeping up with them. And what if their children also put off having children? Hey if you don’t want to be around long to see your grandchildren and still be active with them or great grandchildren, share in their joys and teach them family history what’s the point?
Both companies will cover costs of up to $20,000.
Ok not being a CPA where is the tax dodge on this scam?.
What I noted was the “surrogacy benefit”. Freeze your eggs, thaw them when ready, maybe even pay a surrogate to have it. Get the baby and a nanny and have the child at whatever age.
Let’s assume 20 women take them up on this offer. 400K of costs by the company. What do they get in return?
* Millions in publicity for being innovative in making the offer.
* A one-upmanship of being more family friendly without actually having to pay maternity leave, health benefits to kids, etc.
* Offering the benefit makes them look like they support feminists working as hard as guys.
* Attracting hundreds or thousands of highly educated women who are afraid of not being “ready” to have kids until their biological clocks run out. Freezing eggs isn’t guaranteed to work, has only successfully resulted in 1500 kids to date (versus over a million for IVF). But they are offering it, which attracts the 30 year old torn between career and kids and now goes gung-ho to work at that company so she doesn’t have to decide. It looks really good to the 30-somethings who saw 40-somethings wait until they were set in life and then realize IVF doesn’t work at 45 or had one kid at 40.
No confusion on my part, my point is that when you bribe people to have children later in life you can’t replace the years of their youth playing with their children and grandchildren. Old people have more trouble running and paying, rough housing than young people do. Note I am not talking about love, but physical ability and energy.
Agreed. It is easier to keep up with a toddler at 20 than at 30 than at 40.
She doesn’t have to decide.
Sounds more like a sign of weakness and confusion but it’s the trend now days always take the easy way out.
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