Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announces decision to freeze her eggs

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has announced she is going to freeze her eggs and will be sharing the process online. The progressive New York congresswoman, 36, revealed her decision to undergo fertility treatment in a series of Instagram stories this weekend. “This is a choice that I am making to feel more in control of my life,” Ocasio-Cortez said. Ocasio-Cortez said she had been saving for the procedure for a very long time, and said there was not a lot of information for women interested in doing so. “As women in general, we are not taught about our bodies, we are not prepared for our own lives, whether that is in puberty,…

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