[hunter112]

"But here's what bothers me. I'm afraid that, if it's seen as the 'perfect solution' for infertility, it will be more likely to become the norm. If infertile couples start clamoring for fertilized eggs, it will help to further 'institutionalize' the practice of in-vitro fertilization."

Does legalized adoption of born children increase the number of out-of-wedlock pregnancies?

I think this is a specious argument. Better that those small lives go someplace wanted, rather than compounding whatever wrongdoing someone might have committed in creating them, by destroying them, or letting them go past potential viability.

[HiTech RedNeck]

What's the oldest frozen embryo that has ever been successfully implanted? That is weird, for a human soul to be affixed to matter for, what, 5 years but not born yet.

Oh and another weird thought. Have any of these embryos been implanted, not in humans, but in chimps? Suppose a scientist found that would work and that a human baby could be born to a chimp. What would be the ethical implications? We say "I'll be a monkey's uncle" but could a monkey be someone's aunt???

[MrLeRoy]

Does legalized adoption of born children increase the number of out-of-wedlock pregnancies?

The act leading to out-of-wedlock pregnancy is a lot less expensive and more fun than the act leading to "leftover" embryos. But I can't see coming out against saving lives because of what it might lead other people to do.