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Pausing Fertility: What Will Happen When the Eggs Thaw?
Technical advances are driving a boom in egg freezing, which promises to let women put off pregnancy indefinitely. But will the science live up to the hype?
Liza Mundy is a journalist, a senior fellow at the New America foundation and a former staff writer for the Washington Post. She is author of four books, most recently the New York Times best seller Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II (Hachette Books, 2017). Credit: Nick Higgins
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