I am doing egg freezing for polygenic screening. Due to the fact we live in an insano idiot world, the regulatory system doesn't want women to do more than 6 rounds if they are normal responders (they'll allow more than 6 if you're getting very few eggs). They claim this is due to unknown health risks and to prevent accidental incest from too many donations (despite evidence the health risks are comparable to birth control and the fact there's no such cap on men's donations).
I want to do ~12 rounds total. It's looking like clinics, despite saying no cap, actually do have caps. My plan is to do 6, then switch to another clinic and lie and tell them I'm starting over brand new.
A high-profile news organization is proposing sending out a reporter to follow my freezing journey, to come in with me to the clinic, look at polygenic reports afterwards, etc. I am down with this and think this would be good for the world.
But if this comes out, I'm worried that a big story of 'wild west lady taking matters into her own hands, bouncing around clinics in the bay area and lying to them about everything under the sun (i also secretly take different doses of meds than the docs want) might cause clinics to go 'hey, we'd better make sure that lady isn't at our clinic', and then check to see if my name is on their records, or blacklist me from working with them in the future.
One point in favor of safety here is that I assume the publication will not use my real name, and if the clinics read the article and search up 'aella' this will show nothing.
But a different large publication is doing another profile on me (expecting nov publication) and I am like 20% that they will be the first one to use my legal name (which then opens floodgates for my real name appearing on wikipedia) which means googling 'aella' will result in a name they can easily search in their records.
The current proposed egg-story-people also want to use photos of me in their article, which is less scary overall but if a doctor I'm actively working with happens to read the article, that would result in issues.
So: conditional on me agreeing to do this story, will I experience any significant drawbacks from egg freezing? This includes:
new clinics refusing to work with me
current clinics removing me as a patient
any clinics refusing to fertilize my eggs, transport eggs to a different clinic, give me information about my embryos, etc. when this is otherwise standard
If I decide not to go ahead with the story, this will resolve n/a