硅谷推动"怀孕革命" 资助女性员工冷冻和储存卵子

2014-10-28 13:43:22来源：网络

　　Facebook and Apple are hoping to boost theirappeal to female staff and applicants with the newperk of financial assistance in freezing eggs andstoring them for future use. While not all women areconvinced by financial incentives to delaypregnancy, the perk, from companies with a provenrecord of family-friendly benefits, will be welcomedby many as expanding their life choices.

　　脸书(Facebook)和苹果(Apple)推出了一项新福利——资助女性员工冷冻和储存卵子，希望借此提升它们对女性员工和应聘者的吸引力。尽管并非所有女性都会因为有了资助而决定推迟怀孕生子，但这项福利将受到许多女性的欢迎，因为它扩大了她们的人生选择范围。这两家公司早因推出有益于员工家庭生活的福利政策而闻名。

　　But the offer does raise complex moral issues. For example, given Apple’s ferociouscommitment to ever-improving devices and software updates, will an Apple-frozen egg still becompatible with its mother after a couple of years of new product releases? Should a Facebookemployee friend her frozen eggs and post pictures of them on her news feed? This will improveand extend maternal bonding with frozen eggs, or fridge magnets as they will be known.

　　但这项政策确实引发了复杂的道德问题。比如说，考虑到苹果对产品和软件升级换代的不懈追求，苹果冷冻的卵子经过几年的新产品发布之后能否仍和母体兼容?Facebook的员工是不是得在Facebook上跟她的冷冻卵子成为“好友”，并把它们的照片贴出来?这会改善和增进她们与自己的冷冻卵子——或者越来越熟悉的冰箱贴——之间的母子关系。

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