An interview with director of program that promotes adoption of frozen embryos
Researchers from Johns Hopkins and Duke universities recently surveyed 1,000 couples who have created live offspring -- embryos -- now held in a kind of frozen suspended animation at nine U.S. infertility centers. Nearly half of the parents reportedly would give away their embryos to labs for use as general experimental material; up to 60% would hand them over specifically for stem-cell research in the course of which their embryos would be killed, according to the survey. Only a little more than 20% of the donor parents, according to this survey, reported in the journal Science, said they would allow their progeny to go on living by being implanted in the womb of an adoptive mother.
California Catholic Daily interviewed Nightlight Christian Adoptions executive director Ron Stoddart, who has been involved since 1997 with the "Snowflakes" program, which promotes the adoption of frozen live human embryos.
Click here for the interview: California Catholic
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