Embryo Adoption Gaining Favor
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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.
Mamma at Last 12-21-2009 @ 11:23AM
CLM,
How many children have 'we' adopted so far? Every life is signifigant
yours, mine, theirs. I focus everyday on the 134 million children still waiting for love and the opportunity to live beyond their fifth birthday. Today, two million children will die in poverty these embryos are already alive. Any life saved is a life worth the effort. Please contact the Joint Council for International Children's Services to get involved with those who are 'already here' as you put it. Everyone can do something. -M@L (Mom to four, U.S., Korea, China adoptions)
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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Mother at Last 12-19-2009 @ 5:52AM
I just tucked two little ones in who were once rejected for their physical challenges, both malnourished and developmentally delayed for the crime of being born. Tonight, their cheerful blankets cover them all the way up to their sweet faces. Their Christmas gifts are beribboned under the tree they helped decorate with candy canes and too much tinsel blobbed on the branches. They have a future now, and hope. Adoption defined as violence? How can inclusion not be better than rejection. They are not political statements, they are children who sing jingle bells from their car seats and chase butterflies and wrap their Daddy's gifts with a whole roll of tape. One hundred thirty four million children are still waiting to be welcomed home. Most won't survive until their fifth birthday in depserately poor institutions. Your opinions won't save their lives. Don't you think that they are as relevant as you are? Born homeless. Adopted and adored. Why would you deny them that? Why does their long awaited happiness threaten you?