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hot new perk: Avery Stone, “More and More Companies Are Covering the Cost of Egg Freezing. But Who Is It Really For?,” Vice, May 26, 2020, vice.com/en/article/ep448j/more-companies-are-covering-the-cost-of-egg-freezing-who-is-it-really-for-v27n2.
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19 percent: Mercer, “New Survey Finds Employers Adding Fertility Benefits to Promote DEI,” May 6, 2021, mercer.com/en-us/insights/us-health-news/new-survey-finds-employers-adding-fertility-benefits-to-promote-dei/.
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become a staple: Mercer, “New Survey Finds Employers Adding Fertility Benefits to Promote DEI.”
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Each member receives: Progyny, Member Guide: Understanding Your Progyny Benefit, 2020.
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in their mid-thirties: E. Chronopoulou, C. Raperport, A. Sfakianakis, G. Srivastava, and R. Homburg, “Elective Oocyte Cryopreservation for Age-Related Fertility Decline,” Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics 38, no. 5 (2021): 1177–1186, doi.org/10.1007/s10815-021-02072-w.
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travel abroad for a better deal: Alyson Krueger, “Have Eggs, Will Travel. To Freeze Them,” New York Times, April 8, 2023, nytimes.com/2023/04/08/style/egg-freezing-procedure-travel.html.
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alimony can finance: Marcia C. Inhorn, Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs (New York: New York University Press, 2023), 74–75.
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“We pay too much”: Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (New York: Random House, 2020), 87.
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twenty-one states: “Tracking Abortion Bans Across the Country,” New York Times, last modified December 8, 2023, nytimes.com/interactive/2022/us/abortion-laws-roe-v-wade.html.
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“The United States has”: Emily Witt, “The Future of Fertility,” New Yorker, April 17, 2023, newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/24/the-future-of-fertility.
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could mean impaired access: Gerard Letterie and Dov Fox, “Legal Personhood and Frozen Embryos: Implications for Fertility Patients and Providers in Post-Roe America,” Journal of Law and the Biosciences 10, no. 1 (2023), doi.org10.1093/jlb/lsad006.
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“personhood laws”: Wendy Davis, “The Next Big Battle in America’s Abortion Fight Will Be over Fetal Personhood,” NBC News, October 23, 2022, nbcnews.com/think/opinion/americas-abortion-law-fight-will-fetal-personhood-rcna53477.
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raises all sorts of questions: Chabeli Carranza and Jennifer Gerson, “IVF May Be in Jeopardy in States Where Embryos Are Granted Personhood,” The Guardian, July 16, 2022, theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/16/ivf-anti-abortion-states-embryos-personhood.
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could become illegal: Krys Mroczkowski, Colleen Ammerman, and Rembrand Koning, “How Abortion Bans Will Stifle Health Care Innovation,” Harvard Business Review, August 8, 2022, hbr.org/2022/08/how-abortion-bans-will-stifle-health-care-innovation.
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public universities in Idaho: Rebecca Boone, “Idaho Universities Disallow Abortion, Contraception Referral,” Associated Press, September 27, 2022, apnews.com/article/abortion-health-legislature-idaho-birth-control-bd238c572da10d812ef5ba93f1860fc5.
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Time will tell: Ariana Eunjung Cha and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, “Overturn of Roe Could Make IVF More Complicated, Costly,” Washington Post, May 11, 2022, washingtonpost.com/health/2022/05/11/roe-overturn-ivf/.
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about 12 percent: National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Key Statistics from the National Survey of Family Growth,” last modified June 20, 2017, cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/key_statistics/i.htm.
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twice as likely: Jamila Perritt and Natalia Eugene, “Inequity and Injustice: Recognizing Infertility as a Reproductive Justice Issue,” F&S Reports 3, no. 2 (2022): 2–4, fertstertreports.org/article/S2666-3341(21)00103-3/.
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twice as long: Helen B. Chin, Penelope P. Howards, Michael R. Kramer, Ann C. Mertens, and Jessica B. Spencer, “Racial Disparities in Seeking Care for Help Getting Pregnant,” Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 29, no. 5 (2015): 416–425, doi.org/10.1111/ppe.12210.
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lack of ethnic diversity: Angela Hatem, “Sperm Donors Are Almost Always White, and It’s Pushing Black Parents Using IVF to Start Families That Don’t Look Like Them,” Insider, September 17, 2020, insider.com/egg-sperm-donor-diversity-lacking-race-2020-9.
