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[F]ertility clinics are rarely challenged, and very often applauded, by left-wing consumer advocates and right-wing social conservatives trying to shield women from the true price of their ova. ?Some egg-market critics,? [Krawiec] says, ?exhibit a near-obsessive concern that young women, but not young men, will later regret their decisions to genetically parent children.? In other words: Men are rational. Women are overemotional puddles of impending regret. Surely the last thing we can be expected to think clearly about is our ability to make small humans. So thank you, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, for so assiduously protecting us from our reckless, muddle-headed, baby-loving instincts. We?ll try not to notice that you?re getting rich doing it.