KGNU's Claudia Cragg speaks here with
Miriam H.
Zoll about her new book, 'Cracked
Open' her eye-opening account of growing into womanhood with
the simultaneous opportunities offered by the U.S. women’s
movement and new discoveries in
reproductive technologies.
Influenced by the
pervasive media and cultural messages
suggesting that science had finally eclipsed Mother Nature, Zoll
postponed motherhood until the age of
40.
When things don’t progress as
she had hoped, she enters a world of medical seduction and the
bioethical quagmire. Desperate to conceive,
she surrenders to unproven treatments and procedures only to learn
that the odds of becoming a mother through
reproductive technologies are far less than she and her generation
had been led to believe.