Breaking down the high costs of egg freezing

This week, 60 Minutes reported on egg freezing : a medical procedure in which a woman's eggs are harvested, frozen and stored until she is ready to have children. Correspondent Lesley Stahl visited a fertility clinic in Manhattan to see the egg retrieval process with Dr. Tomer Singer, head of Northwell Health's fertility practice. After a patient had eggs retrieved from her ovaries in a surgical procedure, Stahl and Dr. Singer watched on a monitor as embryologists used tiny pipettes under a microscope to find and isolate the egg cells. Those eggs are then put onto tiny straws and plunged into liquid nitrogen. When the woman is ready to try and have children, even years later, the eggs can be thawed, fertilized and implanted in her uterus. The hope is that the eggs will produce a child, but that outcome isn't guaranteed. 60 Minutes reported that egg freezing is becoming increasingly popular among young women. Stahl interviewed a group of women who spoke about their experiences with egg freezing, and shared their reasons for doing it. Yasmine Higbee, 30, told Stahl she was going to start freezing her eggs in the coming days. "I think that it kind of gives you insurance on having children, in a way. So, just in case you do have problems conceiving at the time you want to get pregnant …you have the option," she explained to Stahl. …