The Detroit News. They are the little-noted byproduct of the boom in fertility services.
Couples often create more embryos than they use in any one attempt at pregnancy.
Our underlying feeling is one of nurturing and protection. Now, however, embryos like these are drawing interest far beyond the doctors and patients who created them. The questions are sure to test philosophers for years. Adoption agencies are transferring embryos to hopeful patients who cannot create their own. That is just not morally responsible.