Why Corporations Should Keep Their Hands off Employees Ovaries.

http://www.alternet.org/gender/why-corporations-should-keep-their-hands-employees-ovaries?akid=12472.294211.bbQwai&rd=1&src=newsletter1027216&t=21

In the words of a Stanford University blogger,

The prevailing wisdom was that denial of motherhood was a more effective means of incorporating women into the workforce than affordable childcare… Sterilization in Puerto Rico…was “voluntary” only in the narrowest sense of the word. Employer discrimination and a general lack of alternative options gave women a very strong incentive to participate in the procedure. The basic idea that sterilization would free women from the burden of childbearing to work in an industrialized workforce underwrote the entire program. This was done in the context of a women’s rights movement in the United States strongly supporting birth control as a means for women’s gaining more reproductive rights.

Is it just me, or does this sound applicable to Apple and Facebook’s current corporate egg freezing benefits?
The fact is, whether intended or not, Facebook and Apple’s offers to freeze female employees’ eggs are a form of corporate reproductive coercion and must be understood as such, pressuring women to sacrifice family for career, perhaps at the risk of their own health and wellness. Reproductive ‘choice’ is hardly free in the context of cultural pressures mixed with economic and employment needs. Corporations of any political persuasion have no business controlling workers’ reproductive body parts or wholes. Employers who seek to support employees’ reproductive choices (regardless of gender, age, or sexuality) should consider robust parental leave benefits and generous on-site daycare, not offers of reproductive coercion disguised as reproductive choice.