We have some leftover embryos from in vitro procedures. We do not want to have more children. We do not want to donate these embryos to someone else. What if they were successfully implanted in another woman's uterus and the kid shows up on my doorstep twenty years from now? What if that mother abuses my genetic offspring? What if she smokes or drinks while she is pregnant and the kid comes out with horrible birth defects?
George Bush has decided that it is immoral to use them for research. So that means they must either stay in the freezer forever or we can throw them away. Does anyone else have any ideas?
2006-07-20 10:12:57 · 15 answers · asked by rollo_tomassi423 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Donate them to the California State Program, Voted in by California Voters, for Stem Cell Research. The fetus could be a building block for a cure to Heart Disease or an actual cure for some person who would die young, otherwise, and unnecessarily.
The person that survives may also have been someone who was against the practices of stem cell research
2006-07-20 10:25:07 · answer #1 · answered by zclifton2 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hard question and one that anyone going through fertility treatments should think about prior to starting treatment. Do you know anyone personally who is having fertility issues? They might be a good candidate. Actually you don't donate eggs, they have to be adopted, just like kids and there is a legal process involved in giving up any parental rights and/or obligations. You can screen who you let have them to give them the best possible chance at a good home.
There are other forms of research that can/will use them besides stem cell. Research in thawing and fertility treatments use them all the time.
One other option for using them would be to just implant them without the medications and see what happens. Most likely they wouldn't take, but there is that risk.
It's a hard decision and I wish you the best with it.
2006-07-20 10:20:24 · answer #2 · answered by vonwasden 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be responsible. Throw them away. If you are not willing or able to financially and emotionally support the child that might be born using these embryos, you have an obligation to destroy them. Otherwise, leave them in the freezer and forget about them. Who knows, maybe in the distant future, you, your spouse or your child might require a bone marrow transplant. With these embryos, you'd have the option of surrogating another child for a donor.
2006-07-20 10:30:59 · answer #3 · answered by Chainsawmom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'd be worried having decrease back to diminish back pregnancies like that. furnish you with body a 365 days to heal a minimum of before you've the FET. then you definately could have better time to spotlight your toddler. you'll locate that its very not basic to preserve a toddler even as pregnant with yet another. FET is a lot less efficient than sparkling, there is no ensure that the embryo survived the freeze/thaw cycle.
2016-12-02 00:30:20 · answer #4 · answered by fellman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with the third answerer. Keep them frozen. Besides, Bush is an idiot. Why NOT use them for research? Other people could be benefiting from them as we speak if it were legal. How stupid of him...not very surprising, however. So yeah just keep 'em frozen in case it ever does become legal to use them for research. I see why you don't want to donate them!
2006-07-20 10:19:17 · answer #5 · answered by miss_gem_01 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could screen prospective parents, or even have an agency do it for you. The same rigorous screening could apply as it would for those wanting to adopt.
My "extras" have been on ice for the past 4 years, but we're getting anxious to decide now as well. The more I get to know my kids, the harder it is to think of getting rid of their siblings. Even if we won't ever know them, it's still too much to think of taking away their chances for survival. We'd much rather that they make another good couple as happy as our kids have made us.
2006-07-20 10:21:32 · answer #6 · answered by Beek 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am sure you could donate them to a private company doing research. You dont have to listen to everything Bush says.... infact I would recomend not listening to anything he has to say lol
2006-07-20 10:18:34 · answer #7 · answered by luther01 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give it to countries where it is legal to do embryonic stem cell research. They do so in Singapore and Korea.
2006-07-20 10:17:42 · answer #8 · answered by Joy RP 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would keep them frozen in case a law does pass for reaserch. good luck man
2006-07-20 10:16:37 · answer #9 · answered by scrdudie7 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think he decided its illegal just that the feds wont pay for it... I think if you found a privately-owned SCR company they would use them.
2006-07-20 10:16:26 · answer #10 · answered by RATM 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋