Miranda Devine: AOC’s sad fertility journey is the perfect example of the left and right’s divide on children and family
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s very public fertility journey is one of the saddest stories of our time. The 36-year-old New York democratic socialist congresswoman has been filming herself in livestreams on Instagram all week, injecting her stomach with hormones and narrating her long-shot efforts to extend her fertility by freezing her eggs.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s very public fertility journey is one of the saddest stories of our time. The 36-year-old New York democratic socialist congresswoman has been filming herself in livestreams on Instagram all week, injecting her stomach with hormones and narrating her long-shot efforts to extend her fertility by freezing her eggs. “Usually I keep my private life quite private,” she tells the audience of millions who have watched her videos, “but I have made the decision to start freezing my eggs.” Good on AOC for acknowledging she wants to be a mother, even if it’s not at the top of her list of priorities. But she is living out the feminist left’s antiquated mythology of “having it all” — updated with the false promise from the increasingly popular egg freezing industry that you can easily outwit Mother Nature.
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- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s very public fertility journey is one of the saddest stories of our time. The 36-year-old New York democratic socialist congresswoman has been filming herself in livestreams on Instagram all week, injecting her stomach with hormones and narrating her long-shot efforts to extend her fertility by freezing her eggs.
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Miranda Devine: AOC’s sad fertility journey is the perfect example of the left and right’s divide on children and family
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