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By Ericka Andersen, First Things, March 12, 2025
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For Emily Ballou, it seemed like the perfect solution. She had always wanted to adopt a child someday—she had been an adoptee herself—but the complications and expenses of traditional adoption were constraining. When Ballou discovered embryo adoption, it seemed easier, faster, and cheaper.
In embryo adoption, an unrelated embryo is placed in a woman’s uterus by means of the same method used in IVF. Embryo adoption can be more reliable than traditional newborn adoption, as it eliminates the risk of a birth mother’s changing her mind. Closed embryo adoptions, wherein information about the adopting family is hidden, also remove the pressure of needing to be “chosen” by the birth family.
After researching the procedure, Ballou tells me, she and her husband contacted the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC), a faith-based facility (though a person of any faith may donate) promising to match donor embryos predominantly with two-parent, Christian families. …
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