As anyone who's stumbled across me once or twice knows, I am a big fan of adoption. From where I sit, it's right on just about every level possible, managing to pull off so many positives in circumstances that can be heavily weighted toward the negative, the dire and the disastrous.

Yes, when the question involves children with no one to care for them and families longing for little ones, adoption is a very good answer.

There are those, however, who don't feel this way. I'm not talking about the anti-adoption league ... not here, not now, although I did go on a bit on the topic in today's International Adoption Blog ... nor am I pondering the loss and longing of birth parents.

It's people who feel they must procreate to parent I'm thinking about today.

A report out of Canada says that the health system in the country is considering regulating the freezing of human eggs, suggesting it be one of the reproductive technologies that will be subject to licensing in future.

Although many people in positions to debate the issue seem comfortable with the freezing of eggs for women undergoing treatments for cancer and other conditions that will render them infertile eventually, some are far less so when the stated reasons for harvesting and freezing is to, " ... allow women to have children at any age they choose."

And with that, the topic gets hot.

Professor Tim Caulfield of the University of Alberta has stepped up to point out that there's a slippery slope involved in deciding who can freeze their eggs, and what the motivations should be: "To what degree does the state have a right to tell women when they can or can't have children? When does the government have a right to step in and say, 'Oh, you're too old.' "

Others quickly point out that what's good for the gander should be good for the goose, and if older men can father in the reproductive sense of the word, why the heck shouldn't older women mother, even if it takes a bit of help from science.

(Speaking of help, do the name "Viagra" ring a bell?)

In a public forum the newspaper provided, a comment suggested egg freezing as an unnecessary, perhaps frivolous tactic when there are "so many older children in the world in need of adoption".

As an older adoptive mother, I can certainly understand the desire to parent rearing its head well beyond the 'best before' date, but I've been pregnant, I have given birth, so I'm not a fair gauge of how far adoption goes to fill the gap that may be felt by someone who wants to make a baby from scratch or feels that a replica is important.

Any thoughts?