As increasing numbers choose the procedure, concerns grow over the lack of transparency in some clinics
The UK’s fertility regulator has called for an urgent update to the law around egg freezing as rapidly growing numbers of women choose to undergo the procedure – often without being warned of the full financial, emotional or physical cost.
The intervention by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) came amid warnings of a lack of transparency around clinics offering the relatively new technology, and claims that women, often undergoing the process alone and potentially spending tens of thousands of pounds to do so, are not being sufficiently protected.
