What would you do with the extra embryos resulting from in vitro fertilization?

[Ave Maria]

What would you do with the extra embryos created from the process of in vitro fertilization? Would you let them stay frozen indefinitely? Would you donate them to research? Would you donate them to other parents?

Personally, I would donate them to research so that the stem cells can be used to create cures for persons with souls. I do not believe that embryos have a soul.

 

[happyfreak14]

have a time frame in which to donate them to other parents (who want the children with souls they could become) but after that time for research.

 

[Ave Maria]

have a time frame in which to donate them to other parents (who want the children with souls they could become) but after that time for research.

Ah okay. That sounds like an interesting idea. Thanks for that!

 

[Fantine]

If you believe that life begins at conception, then you should have some moral objections to in vitro fertilization as well....

Sometimes women who have undergone IVF later undergo selective abortions because too many embryos have been implanted and it is considered better to save some then jeopardize all of them.

Sometimes embryos are never implanted.

I know that the desire to have IVF comes from a desire to give life, but in trying to give life to one healthy baby, you may lose many other embryos who will never live.

 

[Ave Maria]

I have changed my position. In vitro fertilization is objectionable. I would never get the procedure done.