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Fertility: the long wait for women who want to have their eggs preserved

2023-08-01T17:53:43.166Z

Highlights: Two years after the bioethics law, the queues are getting longer. Elsa applied for self-preservation of her eggs in a hospital in the Paris region. A month later, eleven of his oocytes slept cool, vitrified at -196 °C in a tank in a clinic in Bilbao. "My relationship is going through a complicated period and this allows... this allows me to have a break," says Elsa, who is 36 years old and has been with her partner for five years.


STORY - Two years after the bioethics law, the queues are getting longer. Patients oscillate between hope and dismay.


After several unsuccessful attempts at assisted reproduction with her partner, Elsa applied for self-preservation of her eggs in a hospital in the Paris region, last March, "to take a break" in the process and "save time". "I was told of a waiting period of 24 months and I was told that I was too old when I had just turned 36," says this Parisian lawyer. This refusal came as a shock while I am within the framework of the law. What is very difficult in these journeys is to be imposed very long deadlines and at the same time reproached for arriving too old. It's absurd."

To avoid wasting time in this race against time, the young woman turned to a private clinic in Spain. A month later, eleven of his oocytes slept cool, vitrified at -196 °C in a tank in a clinic in Bilbao. Cost of the operation: 2600 euros. "My relationship is going through a complicated period and this allows...

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Source: lefigaro

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