Fertility experts at odds over egg freezing

Leading fertility experts have clashed over the merits of social egg-freezing, with one doctor warning women against wasting their money on trying to have a baby in this way.

John Waterstone, the vice-president of the Irish Fertility Society and medical director of the Cork Fertility Centre, branded as “unethical” the promotion of the cryopreservation technique by certain clinics that have yet to prove it works in their labs.

“It remains the case that no clinic in Ireland and very few in the UK have frozen eggs, thawed them, and produced a baby after fertilising them,” said Dr Waterstone.