Even if Embryo Adoption is Moral, You Shouldn’t Do It, by Matthew McKenna

One of the many issues with IVF is that numerous extra embryos are made in order to increase the chances of having a successful birth.  When these additional embryos are produced, they get stored (frozen) or discarded (aborted).  In the United States alone, there are anywhere from one million to ten million frozen embryos in storage.  What are we to do with these frozen embryos? Within Catholic theology there is a debate on this issue, with faithful, orthodox Catholics on both sides.

One side of the debate holds that the sin already occurred in the production of these embryos and that these embryos are suffering a great injustice by being kept frozen.  Thus, we should allow people to “adopt” these embryos and allow women to carry them, birth them, and raise them.  This is the pro-embryo adoption side.  Adoption is moral, and organ donation can be moral, so why not allow a woman to give the use of her uterus to an abandoned child? ….

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