Salonen: ‘Frozen orphans’ tarnish fertility biz

On Friday, one of my more illuminative podcast episodes dropped. The guest, Dr. Elizabeth Rex, is a bioethicist raising awareness about immoral practices in today s artificial reproduction sphere. Dr. Rex understands personally the deep ache of infertility. She and her husband chose adoption and are eternally grateful for the two children they welcomed into their family three decades ago. But when she discovered that the fertility industry is leaving countless extra embryos frozen in storage tanks across the country, indefinitely, she made it her life s mission to inspire an end to this inhumane practice. As a solution, Dr. Rex is advocating that the parents of these children either return for them or offer them for adoption to couples willing to help usher them into the life they were destined to live. I purposefully timed our conversation, Is embryo adoption licit?, for October, Respect Life Month, a time in which we should consider how well we re doing in pro