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Article: Embryo innovation: Adoption now an option for frozen embryos.
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- Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK)
- Article date:
- August 24, 2006
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Byline: Leigh Woosley
Aug. 24--Frozen in a St. Louis clinic were four embryos Mark and Lise Dill considered babies-to-be, lives waiting to happen. But with five children already, the couple decided their family was large enough.
They were now left to choose the fate of four frozen cell clusters.
To store the embryos costs $600 a year. To destroy them was the cost of four lives, as the couple saw it. Donating to science was never an option. Then Lise Dill suggested something her husband had never heard of -- adopting their embryos out. Last winter, the Dills, both 42 years old, gave their embryos to an infertile couple in Missouri, ...