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Article: Unthawing Frozen Embryos: The Legal & Ethical Conundrum of Embryo Adoption
- Article from:
- Human Life Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright Human Life Foundation, Incorporated Winter 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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"I think about the embryos every day. . . . I am their mother. I see them as my own children. They are the DNA from my husband and I. It's something I worry about, especially when the three years is over and I have to make a decision again."'
While the legal and ethical debate over when human life begins and the status of embryos in American society continues, real people face real, and sometimes agonizing, decisions. An infertile couple who use in vitro fertilization ("IVF") to have children inevitably must decide what to do with so-called "frozen" or "excess" embryos - embryos that have not been implanted in the woman's womb and remain in a state of cryo-preservation, frozen within ...