The sins were committed years ago when they knowingly did this (both doctors and patients) in order to bring the success rates per cycle up…..and of course the selective reductions for when more than desired number were achieved.
The live embryo’s in stasis still exist. By theological standards, it is life (I know that you reject these standards), but by biological standards, it is life also.
I believe that you wish to designate them a less significant form of life as the are the property of the people who froze them. Where have we seen that before?
This is all I will be posting. This is the long term problem from years ago coming home to roost in the last few places with a conscience. Many of us warned about it back then as well.
The success rates from IVF could be improved a bit per cycle with more embryos implanted than were safe each cycle (should all of the embryos implant successfully since high multiple pregnancies such as quadruplets have much higher risks) saved money sometimes by resulting in less cycles than otherwise would have been required. (Thus, the selective reduction horror of intentionally creating life and then arbitrarily killing the undesired or weaker babies). It also saved money for the couple who wanted to be pregnant yesterday and it allowed the doctor and his lab to publish better success rates and costs that brought in all of the yuppie patients. (Thus, the many frozen embryos stockpiled in storage).
It also saved money to “make a bunch of embryos ahead of time” and then freeze them - as they didn’t know how many that they would need. Both doctor and patient all committed to taking responsible care for those embryos and finding other patients to which to donate them (they even signed legally binding contracts which is the the reason they are upset now) even though they had no answer for the fact that there wasn’t nearly the demand to meet the supply. They knew but didn’t want to look in that direction. Now, they wish to save their yearly small fee, a move that was all too foreseeable.
There are no adult victims here. All knew what they were doing, though the doctors also marketed and profited from it. Very, very sad.