Surrogacy and Employment Rights in the UK
Surrogacy raises questions about the purpose of employment-related pregnancy and maternity rights.
Egg Freezing
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Read more: Fertility Leave: Seeking Assisted Reproductive Technology as an Employee in the UK Fertility Leave: Seeking Assisted Reproductive Technology as an Employee in the UK
Fertility leave — employer-sanctioned time off for fertility treatment appointments — is becoming a feature of modern employment relationships in the UK.
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Read more: Egg Freezing in Israel: Legal Framework and Women’s Viewpoints Egg Freezing in Israel: Legal Framework and Women’s Viewpoints
Social egg freezing cannot serve as a solution for gender inequality in the workplace
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Read more: Conceiving a New Interpretation of Equality Law for Those Undergoing Fertility Treatments Conceiving a New Interpretation of Equality Law for Those Undergoing Fertility Treatments
While UK equality law does not yet clearly include those engaged in ART treatments, potential amendments could facilitate new interpretations.
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Read more: The Problems with Employer-Funded Elective Egg Freezing The Problems with Employer-Funded Elective Egg Freezing
While there are many upsides, employers should be mindful of how funding egg freezing may impact workplace culture.
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Read more: A Good Man is Hard to Find: Egg Freezing and the ‘Mating Gap’ A Good Man is Hard to Find: Egg Freezing and the ‘Mating Gap’
While egg freezing goes a long way toward relieving anxiety and sustaining hope, it also allows for conformity to heteropatriarchy and bionormativity.
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Read more: Egg Freezing Permissible in Islam, According to Egypt’s Dar Al-Ifta Egg Freezing Permissible in Islam, According to Egypt’s Dar Al-Ifta
By Sarah Alawi Dar Al-Ifta, Egypt’s Islamic body, issued a statement earlier this month on the legality of egg freezing under Islamic law following a controversial Facebook post by an Egyptian woman, Reem Mahana, on her decision to freeze her eggs. Mahana said she froze her eggs for “the simple reason” that she wants to…
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Read more: Art Caplan on Companies Paying for Egg Freezing Art Caplan on Companies Paying for Egg Freezing
Over at Medscape, Art Caplan has a new video critiquing some companies’ new policies to pay for women to freeze their eggs: Facebook and Apple recently announced a new perk for female workers. They will pay to freeze their eggs, a benefit that has sparked an appropriate ethical controversy. There is no doubt that some women…
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Read more: Egg Freezing and Women’s Decision Making Egg Freezing and Women’s Decision Making
By David Orentlicher [Cross-posted at Health Law Profs and PrawfsBlawg.] The announcement by Apple and Facebook that they will cover the costs of egg freezing predictably provoked some controversy—predictably because it involves reproduction and also because too many people do not trust women to make reproductive decisions. Interestingly, the challenge to women’s autonomy can come…
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Read more: Why Did Egg Freezing Wait So Long? Why Did Egg Freezing Wait So Long?
[Cross-posted from Concurring Opinions] By Gaia Bernstein Egg freezing has become the new hot trend in the infertility industry. Although infertility practitioners first used egg freezing in the mid 1980s, it was only recently that success rates have significantly risen making this an attractive option for women. A woman can now freeze her eggs at any…