Thursday, January 10, 2008

Albert Mohler: "A Rather Unexpected Aspect of IVF" -- Over a Million Human Embryos Destroyed in Britain
Thursday, January 10, 2008

The development of In Vitro Fertilization technologies [IVF] has produced what one key observer has called "a rather unexpected aspect" of the technique -- the destruction of well over a million human embryos in Great Britain alone.

As reported in
The Times [London], over a million embryos have now been destroyed in British fertility clinics. These embryos are produced in order to lower the net cost of pregnancies and to ensure an adequate supply of embryos for potential transfer to the womb. Given the fact that many IVF transfers do not lead to a successful pregnancy, the prevailing policy calls for the development of multiple embryos -- just in case.

This practice leads to the existence of potentially millions of "excess" or "surplus" human embryos. In some cases, the excess embryos are destroyed almost immediately after a successful transfer of other embryos. Otherwise, the embryos are frozen. But the frozen embryos are destroyed after ten years, if not before.
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