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Is elective egg freezing the answer to S’pore’s fertility woes? Don’t count on it
Overseas studies have found that only less than 10 per cent of women use the eggs they freeze. And after going through all that trouble to bank up their eggs, most women do not use them in the end.
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Elective egg freezing is not the panacea for an individual’s fertility fears, or a shot in the arm to ease Singapore’s persistent baby drought.
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SINGAPORE - One research finding about elective egg freezing often gets buried under all the hype surrounding the procedure to help preserve fertility: In the end, an overwhelming percentage of women never use the eggs they freeze.
In fact, overseas studies have found that only less than 10 per cent of women use the eggs they freeze, Minister of State for Social and Family Development Sun Xueling said in 2022 when announcing the historic move to allow elective egg freezing in Singapore.
