A Little Known Fact

I know how hard it is to watch someone who is terminally ill and desperately want to find a cure for them. My husband has cystic fibrosis. According to doctors he doesn't have a long life ahead of him. However, we know that God can work miracles in our lives!! That being said, however, my husband and I would NEVER want to destroy the precious life of a little baby in an attempt to find a cure. A baby is a baby no matter how small. Ever seen Horton Hears a Who? :)

I wanted to add one more thing. Embryos can also be adopted (instead of being destroyed) by other infertile couples and given a chance at life. In fact, my husband and I are in the process of adopting 5 embryos right now. These little ones deserve a right to live... we are so excited to give them a warm womb to grow in and a home in which to love them!

An embryo is not a baby. A baby is a postnatal stage of human development. An embryo at this stage has none of the vital systems necessary for determining human life on any clinical level. Anyone with the vitals of an ex-utero embryo is clinically dead. Any parent of a dead child may donate their progeny to medical science, including, thankfully, IVF ova donors.

Of the hundreds of thousands of discarded waste embryos annually, only 100 or so have ever been adopted. What a waste of potential.

Even though I was an embryo conceived inside of my mother's womb instead of a petri dish, my life.... yes LIFE..... was precious to my mother. She fought to keep me safe andd healthy both prenatal and postnatal -to me, there is no difference. It's tragic to me that there aren't more people fighting for the rights of these little ones who cannot fight for themselves. They are life at it's earliest stage.

Thankyou, McCanneFAM. You make a good point.

An embryo is not a baby? Ohh really, sherlock!
An embryo is a human life. It is living. It's a LIVE cell.
Stopping something from living is the SAME as killing.
Think about it.

Thanks. I understand the process perfectly. I simply used inexact wording. Most medical procedures are "invasive and costly" by the way. Embryos are not "overstock". They are frozen for future chances at a viable pregnancy. Since the human reproductive system "naturally" weeds out MOST embryos as non-viable, it makes sense that the a similar process is needed with IVF to produce a viable pregnancy. What usually goes to "waste" are NON VIABLE embryos. They are not CAPEABLE of surviving.