Over at ABCNews, a headline earlier this week read, "For Women Who Want Kids, 'the Sooner the Better': 90 Percent of Eggs Gone By Age 30." As expected, the story popped up all over facebook during the next few days with ensuing commentary on female fertility. To which I must respond... Let me begin with the opening sentence:
By the time a woman hits 30, nearly all of her ovarian eggs are gone for good, according a new study that says women who put off childbearing for too long could have difficulty ever conceiving.
Hyperbole anyone? (I mean sure, that outta scare lots of women enough into reading what follows and clicking through the links.) The piece reports that according to a study out of the University of St. Andrews and Edinburgh University, women have lost 90 percent of their eggs by the time they are 30 years old. But ...
