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Good morning, May I offer -- some on-line resources related to this discussion? Here is a picture of what we have been talking about: Picture of a blastocyst - an eight cell pre-embryo prior to tranfer to the uterus. http://www.ivf.com/galart.html Article "So Many Embryos; Christian Group Offers in Vitro Adoption Service." Adopt a left-over IVF embryo as an alternative? http://www.losangelesmission.com/ed/articles/1999/0499jm.htm Article "What Do We Do With Them Now? Embryo Adoption not a Catholic Alternative." The Catholic Church has not ruled on what to do with left-over IVF embryos. (Baptism destroys them!) http://www.losangelesmission.com/ed/articles/1999/0599jmc.htm Article "Are Contracts Worth the Paper They're Written on?" Discusses counciling couples seeking IVF on options for left-over embryos. http://shn.webmd.com/printing/article/1728.60010 Some New England Journal of Medicine articles: Ulysses and the Fate of Frozen Embryos -- Reproduction, Research, or Destruction? George J. Annas The New England Journal of Medicine -- August 3, 2000 -- Vol. 343, No. 5 http://www.nejm.org/content/1996/0334/0020/1329.asp The New England Journal of Medicine -- May 16, 1996 -- Vol. 334, No. 20 The Politics of Human-Embryo Research -- Avoiding Ethical Gridlock http://www.nejm.org/content/2000/0343/0005/0373.asp Here's one I can't read on-line but wish I could. Nat Med 1999 Dec;5(12):1339-41 Related Articles, Books, LinkOut Stem cell politics, ethics and medical progress. Annas GJ, Caplan A, Elias S Health Law Department, Boston University School of Public Health Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA. Tremendous controversy has surrounded efforts to undertake research on totipotent human stem cells. To date public policy in the United States has attempted to skirt the ethical and social questions raised by this research. Annas et al. argue that research using human embryos as a source of totipotent stem cells can secure broad public support if there is an open and public discussion about the ethical justification for undertaking such research and the assurance of adequate federal regulation and oversight. PMID: 10581063, UI: 20048140 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin- post/Entrez/query?db=m&form=6&uid=10581063&Dopt=r Phil Tompkins