Miranda Devine: AOCs sad fertility journey is the perfect example of the left and rights divide on children and family

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s very public fertility journey is one of the saddest stories of our time.The 36-year-old New York democratic socialist congresswoman has been filming herself in livestreams on Instagram all week, injecting her stomach with hormones and narrating her long-shot efforts to extend her fertility by freezing her eggs.“Usually I keep my private life quite private,” she tells the audience of millions who have watched her videos, “but I have made the decision to start freezing my eggs.”Good on AOC for acknowledging she wants to be a mother, even if it’s not at the top of her list of priorities.But she is living out the feminist left’s antiquated mythology of “having it all” — updated with the false promise from the increasingly popular egg freezing industry that you can easily outwit Mother Nature.“Maybe in life you can’t have everything,” she says.“But here’s the secret: You can have a hell of a lot.”AOC is admirably trying to answer the primal maternal urge almost every woman feels, even if they are pressured to deny it.But she also is single, with The New York Times reporting that she has split from her long-term fiancé and college sweetheart, Riley Roberts.She also is being touted as a potential presidential candidate in 2028, a startling concept that she has half-jokingly refused to rule out in interviews.Her dating status is another age-old story.

Now she finds herself at 36, still beautiful, considered youthful by the standards of the day, but with ovaries that stubbornly remain in nature’s grip.From the age of 35 a woman’s fertility falls off a cliff.AOC is trying to outsmart the process by using hormone injections to force her ovaries to emit six to 10 eggs at once which are then removed and frozen in the uncertain hope that they can be successfully thawed and fertilized when she’s ready to become a mother.It’s the same intractably unfair imbalance between the sexes that generations of women have b...