Free Egg Freezing Sounds Like a Dream. The Fine Print Is Your Future Children.

After posting a video of herself injecting hormone stimulation drugs into her stomach as part of her egg freezing journey, she called the decision “badass” and framed it, alongside her fight for reproductive rights, as a corrective to everything women were never taught about their own bodies. What she didn’t mention is what it costs—financially, physically, relationally, and in unrealized dreams for motherhood. A congresswoman can absorb thousands of dollars per cycle, storage fees, and the subsequent cycles of IVF that follow if she ever wants to use her eggs to have a baby. Most of the young women watching her cannot.

The industry has an answer for them. Cofertility’s new “Split” program lets women freeze their eggs and store them for 10 years, for free. But there is one caveat: you must donate half of your eggs to another family.