| What Should be Done with Excess Frozen Embryos?
By Shari Roan
Los Angeles Times
Six years of frustration and heartbreak. That's how Gina Rathan recalls her attempts to become pregnant. Finally, she and her husband, Cheddi, conceived a daughter, now 3, through in vitro fertilization. About a year later, she became pregnant with a second child, naturally. Their family was complete.
A year ago, the Fountain Valley couple received a bill reminding them that their infertility journey wasn't over. They owed $750 to preserve three frozen embryos they created but hadn't used. "I don't see them as not being life yet," said Gina Rathan, 42, a pharmaceutical-sales representative. "I thought, 'How can I discard them when I have a beautiful child from that IVF cycle?' "
Many other former infertility patients also appear to be wrestling over the fate of embryos they have no plans to use: About 500,000 embryos are in cryopreservation in the United States.
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On January 20 & 21 the Embryo Adoption Awareness Center hosted the first in a series of webinars to be offered throughout 2009. Many of our clinic-oriented webinars for 2009 will be presented by our partner Reglera, LLC.
