Interesting article...too long to post. Found at
http://www.usatoday.com/
Search our site..."too many embryos"
12/08/98
Leftover embryos filling void
In infertility clinics throughout the country, tens of thousands of
frozen embryos await their fate.
They are the leftovers from attempts at in vitro fertilization (IVF),
in which sperm and eggs are mixed in a petri dish with the hope that the
former will fertilize the latter. Some of the resulting embryos have
been in icy limbo for years as the couples responsible for their
creation ponder what to do with them.
Perhaps the couples aren't sure about using the embryos to conceive
more children. Or maybe they feel uncomfortable with the alternatives to
paying $1,000 a year for storage: destroying the embryos or donating
them to research. <snip>
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Judith Richards, London, Ontario, Canada
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