Welcomed as liberation and dismissed as exploitation, egg freezing (oocyte
cryopreservation) has rapidly become one of the most widely-discussed and influential new …

More and more Americans are turning to health care professionals to help plan their family
lives.'Nearly two in seven women of child-bearing age in the United States now rely on …

Although IVF and egg freezing have received much scholarly attention, the pivotal role of
financialization in the fertility (preservation) sector remains understudied. This article …

As many people have pointed out, the practice of assisted reproductive technologies (ART)
is big business.'The fertility industry generates in excess of $4 billion in gross revenues each …

Objective To quantify the proportion of annual assisted reproductive technology (ART)
cycles performed at private equity-affiliated fertility practices and to test for differences in …

Millions of Americans rely on the likes of birth control, IVF, and genetic testing to make plans
as intimate and farreaching as any over a lifetime. This is no less than the medicine of …

When Amy, an academic researcher, froze her eggs at age thirtyseven, what surprised her
most was that the process" was far less expensive than I initially thought it was going to be. I …

Thorny and difficult questions permeate the issue of commodification of assisted
reproductive technologies (ART) and abortion. Are ART and abortion services or medical …

" We have a post office box. I would routinely stop and get the mail and not even take it in the
house. I'd bring it here to work. I did not want my husband to see the [medical] bills. The …

The last few decades have witnessed dramatic changes affecting the institutions of family
and parenthood. If, in the past, the classic family was defined sociologically as a pair of …