Cracked Open, book by Miriam Zoll

Liberty, Fertility, and the Pursuit of High-tech Babies

Cracked Open - Liberty, Fertility, and the Pursuit of High-tech Babies, by Miriam Zoll, on Flickr
Cracked Open – Liberty, Fertility, and the Pursuit of High-tech Babies

Cracked Open is Miriam Zoll’s eye-opening account of growing into womanhood with the simultaneous opportunities offered by the women’s movement and new discoveries in reproductive technologies. Influenced by pervasive media and cultural messages suggesting that science had finally eclipsed Mother Nature, Zoll –– like millions of women –– delays motherhood until the age of 40.

When things don’t progress as she had hoped, she and her husband enter a science-fiction world of medical seduction, capitalist conception and bioethical quagmires. Desperate to conceive, they turn to unproven treatments and procedures only to learn that the odds of becoming parents through reproductive medicine are far less than they and their generation had been led to believe.

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