If only it were so easy. The problem is that while sperm and fertilized eggs are relatively easy to freeze and use after freezing it is apparently very rare that you can kiss frozen eggs back to life. I'm talking from painful experience.

Freezing eggs is easy. It's thawing them that's the trick. Until that little bug is worked out its not much of an option regardless of how much money you have.

...you could find a pregnant woman or girl who is not prepared to have a baby, and adopt their baby, instead of the girl getting an abortion or inadequately raising a child.

"It’s a tidy analogy: just as the pill allowed women to have sex without having children, freezing one’s eggs could allow women who want biological children to free themselves from the tyranny of their ovaries."

Women have more to offer the world than just their wombs. If your ovaries are tyranny, I suggest you free your selves by NOT having children. I am pro choice, and believe in reproductive freedom, but wonder how much freedom has women really gotten from invitro fertilization? Frankly I'm opposed to it. Freezing eggs is just too weird, and frankly very egotistical, just like invitro.

...why so many women are afraid to call themselves feminists because they think it's an elite club for neurotic white yuppies in big cities?

This is just dumb. The average American woman over the age of 25 earns $19,000 per year. Look it up, these facts aren't hard to verify on the web. If she has a bachelor's degree, the average goes up to a whopping $31,000. For the vast majority of American woman, "gosh, should I freeze my eggs?" is not a question. It's out of the question. It never became a question in the first place. Most American women marry, and most of them have children. Well over half. Most of those children are born through the usual old-fashioned method. Yet I see articles about people who worry about things like egg freezing far more often than I see articles about things like why the average American woman is barely making $10 per hour. Or how most women, not neurotic "freelancers" with their angsty Seal Press first person confessional essays, handle the "second shift" and motherhood as well as working for too little pay for crappy jobs they don't feel particularly passionate about.

For the vast majority of American women, work is what you do to pay the bills, not something that expresses your special and irreplaceable unique self as an actualized human being. Children are not a burden on our high-flying lifestyle, but a major part of our life, whether we chose them consciously, got pregnant accidentally, or "fell in" to the role of mother. Our "careers" ain't goin' nowhere whether we breed or not, because at $19,000 per year, we don't have what you would consider a career. We bag your groceries, make your coffee, type up your reports, iron your clothes, do digital piecework to make ends meet (that's me). And somehow we parent, too, without stopping the world to let everyone know how much angst we have and how torn we feel and limited in our sphere and yada yada.

Why not acknowledge that we exist, and we are important too?

Christine Lavin wrote the song "Biological Time Bomb" about this very idea only about, oh, 25 years or so ago.

it doesn't really matter...there's no shortage of people in the world.

"the option of single parenthood ("So if you really want a baby, just have a baby! And maybe that will free you up to have real love”)"

Yes, who cares if the child doesn't get a father, as long as mom get's what she wants, everyone's happy, right ? (assuming government provided healthcare and childcare)

"the need for men to take equal responsibility in fertility ("They need to be considerate about their girlfriend or fiancee or wife’s fertility, and they should known that their fertility declines with age, too, albeit not as drastically as women’s")"

What is this, 1950 ? If your having a problem finding a man with these sensitivities, I suggest YOU are doing something wrong. This reeks of misandry.

"and the phenomenon of "instant families" (typically formed when a couple in their waning years of fertility "meet, marry and have a kid within two years," sometimes leading to "instant divorces")"

Again, is there anyone that thinks this is reasonable? The bigger problem is the complete lack of respect for a child's right to be raised by both biological parents. If you have kids, it's for better or worse.....not when it is no longer convenient for mom. Why is that feminists think mom's rights trump dad and child's rights ?

... is the whole question of how delaying parenthood affects the children. In years gone by, a couple in their 50's was finished raising their nuclear family, and was happily on to playing with the grandkids typically. In today's world, the grandparents may well have a toddler of their own to play with the grandkids.

There have been numerous studies that show as we age, the health of babies declines at birth. That health problem might be mitigated here by freezing eggs early in life rather than waiting till later. Less discussed in this issue is the question of whether older parents can provide the same environment to their children as younger parents can.

I think that question can go either way, really. You can argue that the sheer physical craziness of raising a child makes it far more difficult to do as we get older ... conversely, we can argue that the higher socio-economic level as we get older affords the child of older parents more opportunities. Its hard to say, really, whether the trends towards later parenting is a good thing or a bad thing, but I think, at the very least, those issues should be discussed when talking about a new treatment that may allow us to push parenthood even farther into our older years.

The real tragedy I read about when I see yet another technology to extend nubility is that there is NO good time in a woman's life to have a baby. It's the thing that infertility and teen-age pregnancy have in common.

The real truth is that we as a culture have wrapped our lives around work, instead of having work support our lives. As a result, we are more alienated, lonely and depressed than we ever have been. Our houses may be bigger, but our souls are more empty.

This is not to argue that having children will somehow cure all of this. It won't. But we might start looking at a more systemic solution to these larger problems than assuming one techno-fix is really going to make a difference.