"Embryo adoption" gives new life to some couples’ hopes for a child
Cedar Park Assembly of God Church in Bothell is starting a new “embryo adoption” service, where couples who have gone through in vitro fertilization donate any leftover embryos to infertile couples. While that practice is, in itself, not particularly controversial, the question of what’s to be done with some 400,000 frozen embryos in storage nationwide touches on some of the most controversial issues of the day, from abortion to embryonic stem-cell research.
