10/3 podcast: The Wild West of Canada’s fertility industry

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women's eggs in deep freezeAn employee arranges a test tube in a container used to freeze human eggs in a lab in Athens, Greece. Photo by Kostas Tsironis /Bloomberg

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Thousands of women spend millions of dollars in Canada every year to freeze their eggs, with the hope of giving them flexibility on when to have children.

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But an investigation from the Investigative Journalism Bureau and Postmedia have found that the industry is full of misleading marketing, and emotional manipulation.

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Wendy-Ann Clarke and Lori Culbert join the show to discuss what sparked this investigation, what messaging women are getting from clinics in the industry, and how much money is involved.

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