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Scientists have announced that a baby boy was born recently to a 42-year-old woman from an embryo frozen 20 years ago. Not surprisingly, the idea of frozen embyos has found instant takers. Its proponents defend it on the ground that it will allow greater freedom to career-oriented women to decide about their pregnancy.
Not surprisingly, It has its share of detractors.
In vitro fertilisation and embryo transfer were designed as medical procedures to give infertile couple a chance to establish a pregnancy. What should have been an elective therapy to be used in extraordinary situations is now becoming a norm.
Furthermore, there are ethical questions surrounding the future of leftover embryos. They are living beings that are not implanted but are frozen. How do we dispose of such human lives, which now run into millions in advanced countries like the UK and US? Even worse, the inter-generational donation will complicate and spoil family relations. For instance, how do we cope up with situations when an infertile daughter uses the eggs of her mother to give birth to her own half brother or sister? How would we answer a daughter who questions why she was left frozen as an embryo for decades? It is difficult to evade such ethical and religious questions.
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