Posted on 01/02/2008 3:51:06 PM PST by wagglebee
LONDON, January 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Following a UK Parliamentary question, data from a government organization showed that over one million human embryonic children were killed in the UK in the past 14 years as 'waste' embryos from in vitro fertilization (IVF) processes.
The acquired data showed that 2,137,924 embryonic humans were created using IVF between 1991 and 2005, but about 1.2m were never used. Scientists killed the embryos who were not deemed strong enough for implantation, and froze those not considered 'waste' embryos. Those that survived the freezing process will die in ten years if not implanted.
'Surplus' embryos were created because women responded differently to fertility drugs, doctors told the Times Online. As many as 40 IVF-fertilized eggs can be used in some treatments. The embryos are then assessed for viability, with only about 20% usually considered strong enough to implant successfully in a woman.
Lord Alton of Liverpool, an independent peer noted for his stance against abortion, tabled the question to parliament and obtained the statistics from the Department of Health. He said that embryos were being created and destroyed at "an incredible rate," and advocates embryonic adoption for those embryos that aren't used for implantation in IVF.
"IVF has ensured that a number of people have been given a chance to have children. But it is surprising how many embryos are being destroyed in the process," he said. "This is a rather unexpected aspect of IVF. If you could just create an embryo to implant, that would be fine. I think it would be much better if these embryos that are going to be destroyed were used for infertile couples. At least they would have a chance of life. The number of embryos used is expanding year after year."
Embryo adoption is legally permitted in the UK and United States, but is rare in both countries. Advocates of the process are also calling for the embryonic children to be given up for adoption, where all of them will be frozen and all the survivors used for infertility treatment, provided volunteers with the necessary money can be found within the ten year period.
"Lots of people do have surplus embryos and if people could think about donating embryos it would be wonderful," said a spokesman for Infertility Network UK. "Embryo donation is a much bigger thing in America; it is like adoption. It would be good thing to explore further."
In America, the Snowflakes charity arranges the adoption of embryos by couples who want children. This has, however, led to the birth of only 157 babies in the past 10 years.
The Los Angeles-based Snowflakes charity said it does not "discriminate" between embryos judged to be healthy or unhealthy and added that embryos it has used, which doctors had judged not to be viable, have still produced healthy babies.
The number of pregnancies that have occurred through embryo adoption remains low in the U.S. and the UK due to its high cost and controversial nature. To avoid twin and triplet pregnancies, embryo adoption agencies attempt to implant one and two embryos at a time, an expensive process that usually needs to be done multiple times before a frozen embryo survives in the womb of the adoptive mother.
Last month the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the regulator of IVF practice in the UK, called for a reduction of twin pregnancies in IVF, leading scientists and doctors to look for IVF methods that will use fewer embryos. The authority wants to see many women offered just one fertilised embryo, a step which would minimize the chances of a twin birth and would reduce the number of embryonic children being created and destroyed a few days later.
See LifeSiteNews Special Report on IVF:
http://www.lifesite.net/features/invitro/
See Previous LifeSiteNews Coverage:
Adoptive Parents of Girl Frozen as Embryo Battle Embryonic Stem Cell Research
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/apr/07041908.html
Canadian IVF Researchers Admit 80-90% of IVF-Created Human Embryos Doomed to Die
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/nov/03112601.html
VATICAN SOLUTION TO LEFT OVER EMBRYO DILEMMA IS LITTLE KNOWN
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/dec/02120401.html
ABOUT 170,000 IVF EMBRYO DEATHS PER YEAR IN U.S.
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/nov/02112202.html
It's a classic example of "projection." Liberals love to use terms like this. The TRUTH is that LIBERALS killed over ONE BILLION people in the Twentieth Century following a Malthusian/Darwinist/Communist/Socialist agenda.
This is your idea of world population grow. Get real.
You may not understand this, but the ONLY people who are running around talking about "population control" are leftists like YOU.
It’s a classic example of “projection.” Liberals love to use terms like this. The TRUTH is that LIBERALS killed over ONE BILLION people in the Twentieth Century following a Malthusian/Darwinist/Communist/Socialist agenda.
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I agree with you, We are nicer, we let them starve and guarentee it by encouraging more population growth.
This is your idea of world population grow. Get real.
You may not understand this, but the ONLY people who are running around talking about “population control” are leftists like YOU.
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Leftists areemotional. I am so far right, my wife for 20 years says I am the only living heart donor in the worwld.
So I guess she proved you wrong.
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Last week, outgoing United Nations World Food Program chief James Morris reminded us that 18,000 children die every day from hunger and malnutrition. Morris called the situation “a terrible indictment of the world in 2007.”
For those of you mathimatically challenged this one million starving souls to death.
Again your arguement fails reality.
If you go back and read what I wrote, I specified people dieing of starvation in the United States. I am hesitant to accept any United Nations reports of what happens in other parts of the world, but the reality is that hunger in third world countries is the result of socialist policies and not food shortages.
Again, NOBODY is starving to death in the United States.
Again, NOBODY is starving to death in the United States.
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This is the third time you been proven wrong. Three strikes and your out.
You live in such a narrow sheltored world
Just one of many STARVE stories in USA on Google
Jon Phillips and Sarah Berry Starve Child to Death: Seven-Year-Old ...
So not only do we have another Denver-area child abuse story about someone starving a little kid to death, but this time it’s by people who went through a ...
Got no more time to play with your children, must run along and enjoy my money.
Again, you are either naturally or deliberately obtuse. I specifically made an exception for those who were murdered through purposeful starvation.
All you inane post proves is that you CANNOT find any evidence of people in the United States starving to death as the result of an imagined food shortage.
Again, you are either naturally or deliberately obtuse. I specifically made an exception for those who were murdered through purposeful starvation.
All you inane post proves is that you CANNOT find any evidence of people in the United States starving to death as the result of an imagined food shortage.
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School is over. You need to study food production as was mentioned early in this thread.
You have failed this lesson and have to take it over again.
You have failed this lesson and have to take it over again.
You are unbelievable, you are unable to provide a shred of proof that there has EVER been a food shortage in the United States.
Strange. . .the same societies that allow abortion on demand spend billions on infertility problems. I’m not sure of this, of course, but it certainly seems that the women in countries that do not allow aboriton on demand do not have the infertility problems that women in the ‘civilized’ world have.
So you are against IVF. Good, so am I.
What are you doing to address the problem?
“The fact that the population is growing worldwide DOES NOT mean that there is a food shortage. Nobody is disputing that there are more people today than there were a century ago, what you are being asked to provide evidence of is a food shortage.”
Exactly!
Still waiting for a link to show PROOF of your posts #16 & 17, CHICAGOFARMER.
CHICAGOFARMER, I’m afraid you bought the scare tactics from the antilife people. But this should put you at ease:
“In November 1993 the World Bank produced The World Food Outlook which
anticipated further improvements in the world food situation. Here are some
of its conclusions:
“World food production has more than kept pace with population growth and
rates of growth of food production show few signs of slowing. During the 1980s,
world cereals production increased by 2. 1% per annum while
population grew by 1.7%.. prospects are very good that the 20-year period
from 1990-2010 will see further gains.”
Read the rest here:
http://www.ewtn.com/library/PROLIFE/POPFACTS.TXT
“One of the big challenges ahead is the shift in the way people are using grains. If a lot of corn gets shunted off the ethanol production, that will have a big impact on food prices for people who don’t have much leeway.”
Mark Levin, on one of his radio shows awhile back, was going over how so much “fossil” fuel is used to make ethanol, that what we gain from ethanol energy is minimal.
Plus, our food goes up in price, like corn and grains, and in turn, our dairy products increase in price, because cows are fed corn and grains.
Leave it to the government to act without first figuring out the consequences.
I will study the article: however the following indicates bias big time.
I also notice very few if any references of scientific studies.
Finally, the UN is the last place to base your arguement, especially with all the food for oil scandles, and Kyto scandles.
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I thought that as a liberal, you would believe the U.N., but I don’t trust them, either. And there was more to the link I provided than U.N. stuff.
But anyhow, I can give you all kinds of links, but first ask you to use your own COMMON SENSE, not the scare tactics from antilifers.
What you SHOULD worry about is the aging increase in our population, and less births.
Who will feed you when you are old, if there not enough young people to produce the food?
So, you believe the United Nations, but the Catholic Church is too “biased” for you.
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