Obama Administration Looks To Discard "Snowflake Babies"
03.06.12 |
The Obama administration is looking to end the government's only program of preventing the discarding of "extra" frozen embryos. Also known as, "Snowflake Babies," they are the "extra" embryos a couple involved with in-vitro fertilization inevitably produces. "The Washington Times" says the Embryo Adoption program is scheduled to be discontinued in the 2013 fiscal year. According to researchers as many as 50-thousand of the 600-thousand cryogenically preserved embryos in the U.S. could eventually become available for adoption.
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