Paying for women to freeze eggs in Japan

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He said 12 women were in the process of starting the freezing process, and about two-thirds of them or their husbands had a health issue.

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Because of course the reason people aren't reproducing is that they don't have enough time...a Japanese city has created an egg freezing scheme to help those poor widdle women who were unaware of their reproductive limitations.

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He said 12 women were in the process of starting the freezing process, and about two-thirds of them or their husbands had a health issue.

Sounds like they're getting all the best out of this initiative - people who probably shouldn't reproduce anyway.

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Japan's birth rate slumps to a record low in 2014, health ministry figures show,
with barely 1m newborns in 2014 - 9000 fewer than in 2013.

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The government has drawn up urgent measures to counter the falling birth rate.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made preventing a decline below 100 million a top priority.
But population experts say it would be virtually impossible to prevent that even if the birthrate
rose to his target of 1.8 children per woman from the current birthrate of 1.4.
Without a substantial increase in the birthrate or loosening of staunch Japanese resistance to immigration,
the population is forecast to fall to about 108 million by 2050 and to 87 million by 2060.
Japan's biggest cities have continued to grow as younger workers leave small towns in search of work.
The census showed Tokyo's population grew to 13.5 million, up 2.7 per cent since the 2010 census.
And the city's rush hour trains are just as crowded as ever.
But entire blocks of small shops have been closed in regional cities - the owners usually retired or dead.
In rural areas, even just outside Tokyo, villages are mostly empty, fields are overgrown and bus and train services
are intermittent thanks to scant demand.