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by Christian Brugger Ph.D
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 I spoke recently at a conference on embryo adoption funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and joint sponsored by two agencies (led largely by devout Protestants) committed to facilitating the adoption of frozen embryos (i.e., the National Embryo Donation Center and Bethany Christian Services). Its purpose was to raise public awareness of the problem of frozen embryos and to point the way to a possible life-saving alternative. Everyone present agreed that something needed to be done about the 500,000 frozen embryos presently stranded in U.S. “concentration cans” (to use the late Jérome Lejeune’s poignant term). Most agreed that the embryo has a unique moral status. Some thought the status was that of a human person. And a small minority (myself included) thought the problem stemmed in the first place from our societal toleration of IVF. Most present were professionals involved in some way with embryo adoption or interested in getting involved (physicians, nurses, lawyers, academics) along with several couples who either have adopted and gestated embryos or put their embryos up for adoption.
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06/05/2008
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