Let us talk about eggs! Professional resistance to elective egg vitrification and gendered medical paternalism

Sándor, Judit; Vicsek, Lilla; Bauer, Zsófia

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“…Moreover, an even higher number of participants (76% of women and 67% of men) knew that social egg-freezing before 35 years of age can significantly prolong women's fertility. This result was only slightly below the 83% found by Lallemant et al (2016) among women in the UK and Denmark, where social egg-freezing is possible, unlike in Hungary (Keane et al, 2017;Sándor et al, 2018). It is most likely that people heard of social egg-freezing when global technology giants such as Apple and Facebook announced that they would pay for female employees to freeze their eggs for later reproductive use in 2014 (Mayes et al, 2018).…”

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“…Moreover, not only is the success rate (pregnancy rate) fairly low, but the effectiveness is usually limited, which means that couples have to go through an average of three complete cycles in order to achieve a pregnancy (Stewart et al, 2011;Wyndham et al, 2012). However, 'social egg-freezing' can it make possible for women to have their own biological children at an advanced age (Meissner et al, 2016;Sándor et al, 2018;). 'Social' refers to the idea that women decide to postpone childbirth voluntarily because of difficulties such as finding the right partner, work obligations or extended education.…”

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Knowledge and attitudes about assisted reproductive technology: Findings from a Hungarian online survey

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Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online

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Knowledge and attitudes about assisted reproductive technology: Findings from a Hungarian online survey

Szalma

Bito

2021

Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online

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“…Economic and demographic factors as well as cultural norms have been shown to be correlated to the extent assisted reproductive technologies are used within European societies (Präg -Mills 2017a). In comparison to other European countries, use of these technologies is quite low in Hungary (Präg -Mills 2017b).…”

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Fertility myths, technology myths and their sources - Lay reasoning about age-related fertility decline

Vicsek

2018

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In many societies the average age for giving birth is rising. One factor which could contribute to the timing of childbirth -which has not been explored to a sufficient degree with qualitative research -is lay understanding of fertility and the possibilities offered by reproductive technology. Twelve focus groups were used to examine the reasoning of female university students in Hungary about agerelated fertility decline, how they thought reproductive technologies could help, and how they drew on information sources. Although in many groups the existence of age-related fertility decline was acknowledged, fertility and technology mythsnamely, overly positive misbeliefs -surfaced repeatedly. Building on some elements of the contextual model of Science and Technology Studies, I discuss how socialpsychological phenomena such as resistance to the idea of personal risk can be important in lay interpretations of age-related fertility decline, as well as how exemplification processes can contribute to these myths.

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“…Miközben kitolódott a gyermekvállalás, Magyarországon erős normák élnek azzal kapcsolatban, hogy milyen kor számít későinek a gyermekvállaláshoz (Paksi-Szalma 2009, Sándor et al 2017. Egy 2006-os reprezentatív vizsgálat azt találta, hogy a magyar közvélemény szerint 39 évesen már túl idős egy nő, hogy akkor váljon édesanyává.…”

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“…Donorpetesejttel ugyanakkor nagyon kevés beavatkozásra kerül sor. A béranyaság nem megengedett, a cikk írásának időpontjában pedig a saját petesejt lefagyasztása nem egészségügyi okból tiltott, bár már megkezdődött a párbeszéd a módszer lehetséges beemeléséről a meddőségi kezelések körébe (Sándor et al 2017). Becslések szerint Magyarországon a gyermekek 1,5-2,5 százaléka születik sikeres IVF beavatkozást követő teherbe esés után (HCOG 2012).…”

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Egyetemi hallgatónők gyermekvállalási tervei és értelmezései a korhoz kapcsolódó fertilitás-csökkenésről

Vicsek¹

2018

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Similarly to many other countries, the average age of mothers at first childbirth has increased in Hungary compared to previous decades. In the event of a deferral of planned childbirth there is a danger, due to biological limitations, that some women cannot implement their childbirth plans. A wide range of studies have already examined the factors influencing the timing of childbirth. One potential influencing factor that has only recently received international attention is the lack of knowledge about age-related fertility decline among lay people. This paper intends to contribute to this area by examining an under-researched qualitative research agenda: how students perceive the relationship between age and fertility. In 12 focus groups, among the investigated young women, biological limitations did not explicitly surface in their discussions on the timing of childbirth. On the other hand factors were emphasized that they would like to achieve before having a child. During the conversations a knowledge deficit could often be observed about biological factors and fertility, and technological myths surfaced recurrently-positive myths about their own fertility and about the IVF procedure. Myths were often discussed by group members by referring to various media cases or cases of acquaintances, which were then generalized. In the discourses, a resistant attitude was also present, in response to the social pressure they perceived. They felt that there was a pressure on them for early childbirth, but that in these discourses, according to their perception, decreasing age-related fertility did not appear as a topic. To interpret the results, besides the social psychology theory of exemplification, I use the deficit and contextual model of public understanding of science/technology.

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Let us talk about eggs! Professional resistance to elective egg vitrification and gendered medical paternalism

Cited by 13 publications

References 34 publications

Knowledge and attitudes about assisted reproductive technology: Findings from a Hungarian online survey

Knowledge and attitudes about assisted reproductive technology: Findings from a Hungarian online survey

Fertility myths, technology myths and their sources - Lay reasoning about age-related fertility decline

Egyetemi hallgatónők gyermekvállalási tervei és értelmezései a korhoz kapcsolódó fertilitás-csökkenésről

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