If life begins at conception, then destroying them is murder.
Implanting too many is too risky and can lead to a very risky multiple birth.
If the genetic creators don’t want to use them and don’t want to donate them to someone else, what should be done with them?
I always wondered why the abortion fanatics don’t try to get themselves implanted with unwanted embryos. I mean, if you really think abortion is murder, wouldn’t it be a no-brainer? It seems like a pretty straightforward way to save lives.
Put 'em on a frozen pizza!
“Welcome to Jimmy’s Pizza Parlor Abortion Clinic. Your loss is our sauce.”
I seem to recall a few nuns offering to do this, but the Catholic church frowns on implantation too.
Oooooh…that’s dark. Very, very dark. And yet somehow, I’m drawn to it!!
I say do nothing. If the owners wish to keep paying for them to be held in storage, then leave them there. If they don’t wish to pay, destroy them. Otherwise, why do anything with them?
They should be used for stem cell research. Or if they’re not suitable, toss 'em.
Most of the time, when an ovum is fertilized inside a woman, the fertilized egg doesn’t successfully implant in the uterus, and is swept out with her next period. Some people claim to honestly believe that a fertilized ovum is a human being, with the same civil rights as a person who’s walking around, talking, buying weed, etc. I never hear those people say a thing about the millions of fertilized eggs lost naturally every year.
Weak! How about:
“Phil’s Abortion Agency! You rape 'em, we scrape 'em, no fetus can beat us!”
Well, the response of the administration for the last eight years has been that, since they’re real people with real souls, the only responsible and moral course of action is to incinerate them. No, it doesn’t make sense to me, either.
I was going to say in a crock pot with garlic and black pepper
Frozen embryos only stay viable for so long so eventually the problem takes care of itself.
Well of course not. Once you start getting into how many non-medical abortions occur, often without the briefly pregnant woman being aware of her situation (I believe it’s about 50 percent), you might start wondering what’s so awful about adding an element of choice.
That was my thought as well. And eventually, as a source of stem cells for medical treatments. It’s wasteful and potentially costs lives to just lets them sit or just toss them out.
If there are any embryos left over after the owner has decided to stop having children, she can have them implanted into her own children when they reach childbearing age.
Plan requires contingencies for people whose children are all boys. The concept of arranged marriages comes to mind, with the plan proceding as described above.
Plan also requires people who read it to understand that I’m making a joke. I get that it’s not really high satire like the pizza parlor one, but it’s my small contribution to the conversation.
We were given the options of donating them for research, donating them to other infertile couples or having them destroyed. I was ok with any of the options but we opted for the latter two as my ex was uncomfortable with the research option. Didn’t make sense to me - destroyed is destroyed; if you can learn something from the destruction process then that seems like a good thing to me but I understood that he didn’t feel right about it so I didn’t argue. Didn’t matter in the end, we didn’t get that far into the process.
Friend’s sister-in-law had a child through IVF, no left-over embryos. Years later they went back and had a second child through IVF and had six left-over embryos. Because of their beliefs, they stated their intention to go back and have each of the embryos implanted because they didn’t believe in destroying them, even if it meant they’d end up with eight children. Then number two was born via c-section, so the plan to go back for another after 3 months (!) had to be put on hold. When they finally did try again, most of the embryos didn’t survive the thawing process. Of the two or three that did, only the very last embryo took, so they ended up with three kids. Thank goodness. Eight would have been crazy.
If they’re real people, we should ask them what they want.
My own sister had a similar experience. She had a single embryo implanted in 1995 (gave birth in 1996), then a pair of them, resulting in twins. THEN, when her oldest was about seven she had three more implanted, and they all made it. My daughter joked at the time that this is how she teaches her kids to count (she’s a home-schooler).
So about a year and a half ago, she and her husband had another single embryo implanted, but the pregnancy did not go well. At about the nine-month point, she suffered a problem that resulted in the loss of the baby and necessitated a hysterectomy.
I haven’t discussed with her what her plans are for the remaining embryos.
From the varied responses in this thread, one thing is for certain.
Dopers don’t like to keep all their eggs all in one basket.
I’m here all week.
Put them, frozen, in a big cannister of some sort and drop them off on the steps of the nearest Catholic Church. Let THEM worry about them.