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Embryo Adoption Gaining Favor
Categories: Pregnancy & Birth, Adoption, In The News
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According to a story that appeared on Reuters, American adults were queried in a survey dubbed "Public Opinion Regarding the Disposition of Frozen Human Embryos." The most significant responses for parents centered around their feelings about the disposition of human embryos not used by parents undergoing fertility treatment.
One in five Americans, some 19.5 percent, said they'd prefer the embryos be used for research, while 68.6 percent said they'd be in favor of donation, an adoption of the embryo by another family.
The survey was conducted by Nightlight Christan Adoptions. The nonprofit organization lists its mission as providing "domestic, international, and embryo adoption services to families in all 50 states." Overall funding came from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, which last month awarded a grant to the National Embryo Donation Center in Knoxville, Tenn., to broaden its campaign to heighten public awareness of embryo donation and adoption.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
B. Bernard 10-17-2009 @ 12:16PM
What a wonderful finding- We are so happy to know that public awareness is growing- to give the embryos in limbo a chance for life.
Thank you for spreading the word about embryo donation and adoption.
Warmly,
Bonnie
www.EmbryosAlive.com
Founder/Executive Director
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LS 10-17-2009 @ 3:17PM
It's about time something like this started happening. I'm surprised that it hasn't happened sooner. It's ridiculous that "extra" embryos (and I understand the why's of their creation) have to just sit and wait to be researched upon or destroyed. Why NOT adopt them out?
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CLM 10-18-2009 @ 2:33AM
Why don't we focus on good homes for the kids who are already here?
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Jen 11-02-2009 @ 1:05AM
If you believe Life begins at conception as I and many Christians do, then the frozen babies are already here as well, they are just frozen in time.
I am so grateful for my adopted embryos that are still in my womb and are currently 26 weeks old.
By the way, we have already adopted 5 children after birth as well.
Perhaps there is room in your heart and family for another child?
Please feel free to follow my blog @ JensAdoptionBlessings.Blogspot.com to learn more about our Adoption Journeys.
Ibn Zayd 10-18-2009 @ 7:26AM
It's only a short step from this "concept" to the current reality of using dispossessed women in the third world to act as human incubators for those wealthy enough to afford such exploitation of other human beings. This focus on the needs of those who "have" versus those who don't is spectacularly repugnant, and unworthy of so-called civilized societies. Adoption remains a violence, based in inequality; it is candy-coated to make it seem about family and children, but it is an economic and political crime, a treating of symptoms and not of disease; it is a negation of families and an annihilation of communities that are not seen as having an intrinsic human value equal to that of those adopting, for reasons having to do with race, with class, and with a preconceived notion of what makes for a "valid" life in this world. That rich peoples' embryos now are given more worth than those already living, including children in foster care, is disgusting in the extreme.
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