Muhsin, Sayyed Mohamed and Che Mohamad, Che Anuar and Chin, Alexis Heng Boon (2023) Should Malaysian Muslim women undergo egg freezing overseas? Ova. pp. 1-17.
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Abstract
The stresses and complications of modern living have led to an increasing trend of late marriages and delayed motherhood worldwide. This, in turn, has motivated many single women to preserve their fertility by elective egg freezing for non-medical reasons, commonly referred to as social egg freezing. Singapore will permit the procedure from 2023 onwards. In Malaysia, only non-Muslim women are allowed to freeze their eggs for non-medical reasons, while Muslim women must have a valid medical reason, such as fertility preservation upon undergoing cancer chemotherapy. Some single Malaysian Muslim women will question the rationale of why they are banned from undergoing social egg freezing in their own country, especially career women who intend to postpone marriage and motherhood responsibilities for the sake of career advancement and lifestyle pursuits. In the near future, it is anticipated that an increasing number of single Malaysian Muslim women will seek to do social egg freezing in Singapore and other countries. Elective egg freezing is often promoted by feminists and social libertarians as a means for women to gain freedom and control over their bodies. Nevertheless, Muslim women should also see the other side of the coin, and understand Islamic religious principles that ban egg freezing, before making their choice.
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