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There are millions upon millions of embryos currently in storage in the US.
And that's only a fraction of the embryos created by IVF and fertility treatments; most are never stored.
Even if human hosts could be found to gestate these millions- possibly billions- of embryos, what purpose would it serve? The world can't sustain that many more people, especially when no individual wants to take responsibility for them.
Besides, they go bad in less than 20 years.
Currently, the longest an embryo has ever been cryogenically stored and then gestated and born is sixteen years.
So it would have to be, you know, all at once.
The entire fertile female contingent of the US would have to be forced to gestate one embryo after another nonstop for the next twenty years, possibly in multiples: twins, triplets, more.
And then nobody would want all these kids, anyway.
I think storing them is dumb, and donating them for "adoption" to places like Snowflakes is dumber.
It's a meaningless gesture and a costly salve for the consciences of prolifers who nevertheless want to have IVF treatments.
There are millions of embryos in storage awaiting "adoption", and none ever get adopted.
Might as well just pour them down the sink and have done with it.
And that's only a fraction of the embryos created by IVF and fertility treatments; most are never stored.
Even if human hosts could be found to gestate these millions- possibly billions- of embryos, what purpose would it serve? The world can't sustain that many more people, especially when no individual wants to take responsibility for them.
Besides, they go bad in less than 20 years.
Currently, the longest an embryo has ever been cryogenically stored and then gestated and born is sixteen years.
So it would have to be, you know, all at once.
The entire fertile female contingent of the US would have to be forced to gestate one embryo after another nonstop for the next twenty years, possibly in multiples: twins, triplets, more.
And then nobody would want all these kids, anyway.
I think storing them is dumb, and donating them for "adoption" to places like Snowflakes is dumber.
It's a meaningless gesture and a costly salve for the consciences of prolifers who nevertheless want to have IVF treatments.
There are millions of embryos in storage awaiting "adoption", and none ever get adopted.
Might as well just pour them down the sink and have done with it.
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