Required Reading: Custom Embryos

August 14, 2006

Michael Cook, Editor of the internet magazine MercatorNet has an excellent article on an adoption agency in San Antonio that is offering custom-made embryos for adoption. It’s a shocking yet somehow inevitable perversion of the good work of embryo adoption that places like Snowflakes are doing.

Most of her sperm donors have PhDs and most egg donors have had some tertiary education. All donors are medically screened and the medical quality of embryos is graded. With “proven” donors, the success rate for her pregnancies is around 70 per cent. The centre can even arrange for qualified surrogate mothers, if necessary.

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It is hard to know how to deal with this disturbing new development. But it’s easy to know where we went wrong.

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