{"id":204400,"date":"2019-06-18T11:51:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T16:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=204400"},"modified":"2019-06-18T16:58:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T21:58:56","slug":"embryo-adoption-remain-frozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/embryo-adoption-remain-frozen\/","title":{"rendered":"AMAZING: 800 babies born from donated IVF embryos in Tennessee… but more are waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC) of Knoxville, Tennessee, recently gathered families from around the country to celebrate the 800th<\/sup> birth of a child conceived by a donated embryo through the clinic. WATE 6 reports<\/a> that the group has been collecting leftover embryos for 16 years.<\/p>\n

NEDC president Dr. Jeffrey Keenan told the news station, “It’s been exciting, it’s been awesome. It’s in some respects put Knoxville on the map, as far as a fertility destination because many of these families, to be honest are out of options and don’t have really any other good option for conceiving except to come here and receive donated embryos.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many people view in-vitro fertilization (IVF) as a positive scientific development that has allowed many couples struggling with infertility to conceive children. But this rosy view ignores the serious ethical problems with IVF, which include treating children as manufactured goods<\/a>.<\/p>\n

READ: Woman conceived via IVF: The means don\u2019t justify the end, even if the end was me<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Reporting on NEDC\u2019s celebration, the reporter said, \u201cMany people attending the event are alive because of the donated embryos.\u201d Meanwhile, the remaining embryos, also created outside the womb and kept frozen, are also alive. They are in suspended animation, frozen indefinitely and treated as products to be discarded, made into jewelry<\/a>, or traded for a more desirable<\/a> offering. The NEDC estimates<\/a> there are at least 700,000, and possibly more than 1 million, \u201csurplus\u201d embryos currently frozen in the United States.<\/p>\n