Singapore egg-freezing ban forces women to head overseas

This picture taken on May 11, 2021 shows staff at the KL Fertility Centre demonstrating for the media part of the egg freezing procedure in Kuala Lumpur. A growing number of women in Singapore are travelling overseas to clinics such as the KL Fertility Centre to get their eggs frozen, as people in the work-obsessed country increasingly wait to have children. - AFP

SINGAPORE, June 4, 2021 (AFP): With a busy job that left little time to think about starting a family, Erica decided to sidestep Singapore's ban on egg freezing for a chance to have children later in life.

The advertising executive is among a growing number of women travelling overseas to get their eggs frozen, as people in the work-obsessed city-state increasingly delay having children.