Where Do the Extra Embryos Go?
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 8:20 am
This should prove to be a hot topic.
Doctors at in vitro fertilization clinics typically create more embryos than they will use in helping about 50,000 American women try to get pregnant each year.
A new study (attached to this post) , published this month online by Politics and the Life Sciences, has found that in vitro fertilization, or IVF, clinics don't simply dispose of excess embryos. Some return them to the couple to take home, some offer them up for adoption and some even hold funerals for the embryos, according to a survey performed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University.
More:
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,64722,00.html
Attached files Embryo.pdf (65.3 KB)
Doctors at in vitro fertilization clinics typically create more embryos than they will use in helping about 50,000 American women try to get pregnant each year.
A new study (attached to this post) , published this month online by Politics and the Life Sciences, has found that in vitro fertilization, or IVF, clinics don't simply dispose of excess embryos. Some return them to the couple to take home, some offer them up for adoption and some even hold funerals for the embryos, according to a survey performed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University.
More:
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,64722,00.html
Attached files Embryo.pdf (65.3 KB)