Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for fraud

Re:Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for f... by metadat on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:19PM (#33664269)

This is a common misconception which is very much false.

Frozen eggs don't last indefinitely and the viability degrades over time. After 5 or 6 years they become increasingly unlikely to be viable (it's not impossible, but statistically unlikely to be fruitful).

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Re:Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for f... by shawabawa3 on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:52PM (#33664722)

A friend of my mum had a baby at age ~55 using eggs frozen ~30 years earlier. Not sure if that was a crazy fluke or if some methods of freezing eggs are more reliable?

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Re:Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for f... by metadat on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:55PM (#33664756)

That's a crazy fluke, the max I've seen claimed to be done at all is 10-14 years.

When I re-entered the dating scene a couple years ago I learned much more than I ever wanted to know about egg freezing. It's big business here in the Bay Area where there are a lot of ambitious career women.

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Re:Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for f... by tick_tock_tick on Friday November 18, 2022 @07:15PM (#33664972)

I really think in another decade or two there is going to be a lot of lawsuits regarding egg freezing being pushed on women by tech companies to stay on the career fasttrack when they can't get a viable pregnancy.

Most of the women I know that have gotten it done also seems to have almost a willful ignorance about the failure rate; especially later in life.

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