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Can women have it all?

There have been reports recently of an ‘infertility time bomb' - that smoking, obesity and having children later in life reduces women’s fertility. In the past, women might have worried about getting pregnant by accident, but are women now starting to worry about not being able to get pregnant at all?

The women’s movement fought for women to have choices – for example putting off having children for a while, in order to pursue a career. But does the new evidence suggest that women should indeed be worried, or is there a degree of scaremongering on the part of a society which still doesn't want women to have it all?

Jenni talks to Gillian Lockwood, Medical Director of Midland Fertility Services, one of the largest IVF units in the UK and Sarah Franklin is Professor of Social Studies of Biomedicine at the London School of Economics.

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