Antonella Baccaro (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
P.Can a woman declare her “reproductive independence”? And at what price?
What a great theme it has raised Bianca Baltithe model who made the news by making public the decision to freeze her eggs, at the end of a sentimental story defined as “toxic”.
Bianca is 38 years old, two daughters and a difficult existence behind her, also interwoven with youth violence. And of the wrong men. As defined by the last, now ex, with whom she would have liked to have another child.
Objective that he continued alternately to deny her or to grant her as if it were a reward if she had behaved adequately.
“Feeling like I’ve wasted three of my last fertile years alongside this man – writes Bianca in her newsletter – the independence I needed was reproductive ».
From here the decision to give herself an opportunity to become a mother, untying her from the tyranny of the biological clock which has begun to tick for her.
The model has solved thanks to science, paying “tens of thousands of dollars”, a problem that many of us have to face with our bare hands, once we are 35 years old. “I still think I can meet a man with whom to share a child’s project,” Balti confides to Elvira Serra sul Corriere della Sera.
And that’s what many of us wish we could afford: reproductive independence, i.e. the possibility of choosing the man we love as the father of our children and not the one who is next to us when we are close to not being able to have more.
But in Italy the freezing treatment of oocytes is not yet within everyone’s reach: a cycle, reveals colleague Silvia Turin, costs between 3 and 4 thousand euros.
But the cost increases if you want to freeze more eggs, increasing the chances that one of these will be fertilized when the time comes. For this it would be better to do three cycles. In addition, there are the costs of storing the oocytes: between 150 and 300 euros per year.
In short for now, reproductive independence is still subject to financial capacity. Wouldn’t it be fairer for a country to allow this opportunity to all women regardless of economic possibilities?
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