Control over Embryos
Often times couples who get In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) have spare embryos. During the Bush era, extra embryos were destroyed as opposed to utilized for research and study. Now when a woman is inseminated with embryos, but as extra's she has an opportunity to let them be used for fertility research or donated to an infertile couple without any healthy embryos for use.
Reuters article about fertility said, "While medical researchers hailed Obama's move as a step toward treating or curing a variety of diseases, fertility patients said they were simply glad that they will no longer be limited in their choice of what to do with unused embryos...But she argues that the patients themselves have to have final say about whether to donate their embryos to another family, to research, or to discard them."
Over 500,000 embryos are frozen each year, so it makes sense that the embryo owners have say in what happens to them. Many of which can be put to great use to learn about diseases and fertility research.
Posted by Tala on 3/12/2009 9:57:37 AM
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