Facing the fertility facts Women deserve to know the risks of delaying conception, despite objections from feminists

What do advancing age, smoking, sexually transmitted diseases andbeing overweight have in common? Each can negatively affect awoman's fertility, according to a new ad campaign sponsored by theAmerican Society for Reproductive Medicine. The society is thelargest professional organization of fertility specialists in theUnited States, and it has raised quite a stir because of a publicservice campaign splashing the information across provocative posterson buses in suburban Chicago, New York and Seattle.

No one seems to mind pointing the declining-fertility finger atsmoking, weight or disease--but advancing age is a land mine. SeanTipton of the society told me that …