WHEN PAIN ISN’T NORMAL
Young women with severe endometriosis* are struggling to access publicly funded egg freezing, unlike their counterparts facing cancer treatment or gender transition.
The women have come together under a new Facebook page, Funding Endo Fertility, aimed at supporting one another, but also to agitate for change.
Charlotte Lane, a 31-year-old welder from Christchurch, has had endometriosis and adenomyosis (a condition in which endometrial tissue exists within and grows into the uterine wall) since she was 18. She has had surgery for the condition five times; surgical removal of endometriosis from ovaries can diminish a woman’s ovarian reserve.
When Lane was
