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| In the Blink of an Eye: Facing the Choices of Infertility |
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You may not know what embryo adoption is, much less how to emotionally prepare for it. Embryo adoption occurs when someone goes through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and has leftover embryos (an egg and sperm joined together) available, then chooses to donate them to another woman to carry and raise. |
| Embryos Made to Order |
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Jennalee Ryan creates a business of designer babies and critics wonder if this is ethical. |
| Souls on Ice |
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Learn how hard it is for people to decide the fate of their leftover embryo(s). |
| How embryo adoption is saving lives |
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Today, an estimated 400,000 frozen human embryos reside in fertility clinics nationwide, stored indefinitely as parents who created them via in vitro fertilization try to make a decision about their future. |
| Evangelicals and embryo adoption |
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Infertile couples desperate to conceive children are turning increasingly to fertility specialists for help. Yet, widespread use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) has led to a completely unforeseen consequence: the creation of the world's largest population of frozen human embryos. That reality has ignited a vigorous moral debate among scientists, politicians, theologians, and parents about what should be done with the surplus store of nascent human life. |
| Ban fresh embryo donations, ethics adviser insist |
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An ethics adviser to the country's lead health research agency continues to call for a ban on the donation of days-old "fresh" human embryos until policies are in place to better protect the donors. (The NEDC uses only frozen embryos.) |
| Ethical Alternatives |
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Dr. David Prentice, senior fellow for life sciences at Family Research Council and founding member of Do No Harm, the Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics. A stem-cell expert, he’s been closely involved in the recent congressional action on stem-cell research. As President Bush prepared to veto legislation that would federally fund embryo-destroying stem-cell research for the first time, Dr. Prentice spoke to NRO editor Kathryn Lopez about the debate. |
| The dilemma of 'designer' babies |
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The power to create "perfect" designer babies looms over the world of prenatal testing. But what if doctors started doing the opposite? Creating made-to-order babies with genetic defects would seem to be an ethical minefield, but to some parents with disabilities - say, deafness or dwarfism - it just means making babies like them. |
| Embryos for sale - A new angle in bioethical debate |
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A Texas company has started producing batches of ready-made embryos that single women and infertile couples can order after reviewing detailed information about the race, education, appearance, personality and other characteristics of the egg and sperm donors. |
| Congress Will Take Up Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill Next Week |
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The House of Representatives is scheduled to take up a measure next week to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research. On Thursday, January 11, the House will debate overturning President Bush's limits on spending public funds on the research, which has never cured any patients. |
| Baby from embryo rescued after Katrina due this month |
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The baby album for Rebekah Markham's soon-to-be-born child could include something extra special: photos of officers using flat-bottomed boats to rescue her frozen embryo from a sweltering hospital in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. |
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