Posted on 07/13/2009 12:45:37 PM PDT by Patriot1259
At 11:47 p.m., on July 25, 1978, a five-pound 12-ounce baby girl was born. But this baby, Louise Joy Brown, the daughter of Lesley and John Brown from Bristol, England made medical history. She was the first baby born successfully from a process called in vitro fertilization (IVF). Since then millions of babies have been born using IVF, blessing families that had struggled with the heartache of infertility, sometimes for years. But IVF has a dark side.
IVF is a procedure in which a woman is given fertility drugs to cause her to produce multiple eggs that are then extracted and fertilized in a laboratory dish by mixing them with sperm. To increase the chances of pregnancy and due to the cost of IVF several eggs are removed from the woman’s ovaries during one operation. After they have been fertilized typically three or four are implanted in the woman’s womb. Implanting more than one embryo at a time increases the odds of a successful pregnancy. The remaining embryos are frozen in a process called cryopreservation and stored at IVF clinics, usually for a period of five years after which the genetic parents decide their fate. It is this decision that reveals IVF’s dark side.
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My three beautiful nieces will soon celebrate their 19th birthday. They would not exist if it weren’t for the miracle of IVF. I’m having trouble figuring out what the dark side is to their lives.
Sadly, I personally know a couple who, after having twins via IVF, are now paying “storage” on the other “would be” children. I doubt they will ever BE children.
Do you think the couple with the twins is sad?
No - They love their children. They just didn’t know going into it (or so I was told by the grandmother) that they’d be leaving some babies in storage. This was the only thing that bothered any of them. What if the storage facility goes out of business? What if they can’t pay the monthly fee? This is the dark side of it - the “would be” children LOSE!
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