In 2014, tech companies like Apple and Facebook added egg freezing to their health care packages. Consequently, the procedure received a lot of media attention, often being touted as a reliable option for career-oriented women to delay parenthood. What was once strictly a medical procedure for women facing life-threatening illnesses has now become elective and mainstream, regarded by its proponents as an "insurance policy.” As a result, a new market has emerged, with third party "egg brokers” and fertility clinics selling the incredibly expensive service to women using questionable marketing strategies and misleading statistics.

The embryonic timeshare assumes that parenthood and success are incompatible, but is that really true? Why are women so eager to freeze their eggs? In an effort to make sense of a very convoluted process, Broadly meets with experts in the field, egg brokers and patients whose road to parenthood may depend on birthing a child from their frozen eggs.

EDIT: In this film, Dr. Vicken Sahakian from Pacific Fertility Center is incorrectly credited as Dr. Robert Sahakian.

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