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Testimonies of Snowflake Parents Capitol Hill Press Conference May 24, 2005 Nightlight Christian Adoptions Executive Director Ron Stoddart:Nightlight Christian Adoptions is a licensed adoption agency. We’ve been around for over 45 years. We started doing domestic adoptions. In the early ’90s we added international adoption. In 1997 we started getting involved in embryo adoption. Why? Because the genetic families with their embryos in frozen orphanages wanted a better choice. The choice that they were given to place their embryos with other families involved donating them anonymously. Well that might be ok for the heart or the kidney of a relative...

Randy and Julie McClure had three children who were long out of diapers and no plans for more when they heard about a program called Snowflakes, which arranges for women to become pregnant with embryos left over at fertility clinics. "We really felt like the Lord was calling us to try to give one of these embryos, these children, a chance to live," Ms. McClure said. Mr. McClure, though, disliked the fertility business, which he felt created extra embryos that were often destroyed or aborted. He feared that paying fees to receive the embryos would be helping an industry "that...

Donielle Brinkman has never told her son, Tanner, any silly tales about being found on a doorstep or delivered by a stork. She decided he should know the truth: He arrived by mail, despite a Zip code error that nearly stranded him in a Phoenix warehouse. Tanner celebrated his fourth birthday with a cake at the White House last week, and President Bush offered congratulations on national television. That is because Tanner is the product of what evangelical Christian groups call an "embryo adoption." It is a birthright that places him, and at least 80 other children born in a...