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Headlines & News
- Federal Grant Awarded for Embryo Adoption Awareness Campaign
The National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC) announced today that they are in a partnership with Baptist Health System which has just received two new cooperative agreements to promote public awareness of embryo donation and adoption.
- Embryos Made to Order
Jennalee Ryan creates a business of designer babies critics wonder if this is ethical.
- Misleading, or an Inconvenient Truth
Do No Harm's response to a letter that was discrediting them.
- Women's Risk is Issue in Missouri Stem Cell Debate
Missourians debate embryonic stem cell research and women's risks.
- Never Enough on Stem Cells
Debate over a new way to create embryonic stem cells.
- Souls on Ice
Learn how hard it is for people to decide the fate of their leftover embryo.
- 400K and counting
Christians recoil at explosive growth of frozen human embryos.
- How embryo adoption is saving lives
Today, an estimated 400,000 frozen human embryos reside in fertility clinics nationwide, stored indefinitely as parents who created them via in vitro fertilization try to make a decision about their future.
- New Embryo Donation Center Will Save Lives, Offer Ethical Choices
The tiniest of human beings, once earmarked for death, may now have a chance to live a full life thanks to the creation of a center to receive donated embryos.
- Evangelicals and embryo adoption
Infertile couples desperate to conceive children are turning increasingly to fertility specialists for help. Yet, widespread use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) has led to a completely unforeseen consequence: the creation of the world's largest population of frozen human embryos. That reality has ignited a vigorous moral debate among scientists, politicians, theologians, and parents about what should be done with the surplus store of nascent human life.
- Frozen Out -- What to do with those extra embryos
What to do with those extra embryos
- Federal Grant Helps Promote Embryo Adoption
The National Embryo Donation Center is a partner in a $309,000 embryo adoption awareness grant, funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
- NEDC, was an exhibitor at the North American Council on Adoptable Children
Attendees learn about embryo adoption.
- CBS Accused of Giving Embryo Adoption Short Shrift
The CBS News program, "60 Minutes" did a grave injustice to embryo donation/adoption when they recently aired the segment "A Surplus of Embryos."
- The Vests, who were in Washington to attend a speech by President Bush on embryo adoption, talk about their embryo adoption
The final story in a three-part series on couples who have given birth through embryo adoption.
- Ban fresh embryo donations, ethics adviser insist
An ethics adviser to the country's lead health research agency continues to call for a ban on the donation of days-old "fresh" human embryos until policies are in place to better protect the donors. (The NEDC uses only frozen embryos.)
- Ethical Alternatives
Dr. David Prentice, senior fellow for life sciences at Family Research Council and founding member of Do No Harm, the Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics. A stem-cell expert, he’s been closely involved in the recent congressional action on stem-cell research. As President Bush prepared to veto legislation that would federally fund embryo-destroying stem-cell research for the first time, Dr. Prentice spoke to NRO editor Kathryn Lopez about the debate.
- Texas firm first to offer ready-made embryos
Founder says creating batches lowers cost for parents; some call it unethical
- The dilemma of 'designer' babies
The power to create "perfect" designer babies looms over the world of prenatal testing. But what if doctors started doing the opposite? Creating made-to-order babies with genetic defects would seem to be an ethical minefield, but to some parents with disabilities - say, deafness or dwarfism - it just means making babies like them.
- Stem Cells Discovered in Amniotic Fluid
Researchers Say Stem Cells Can Be Taken From Amniotic Fluid With No Harm to Mother or Fetus
- Parents facing hard decisions don't need unwanted advice
- NNPR Series Examines Use, Ethics Of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis For Embryonic Disease Screening, Sex Selection
"All Things Considered" on Wednesday included three reports on the use of preimplantation genetic diagnosis to screen embryos
- Embryos for sale - A new angle in bioethical debate
A Texas company has started producing batches of ready-made embryos that single women and infertile couples can order after reviewing detailed information about the race, education, appearance, personality and other characteristics of the egg and sperm donors.
- Controversial Embryo Bank Lets Would-Be Parents Choose Traits of Children
The Abraham Center of Life Lets Clients Handpick Traits of Their Future Babies
- Congress Will Take Up Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill Next Week
The House of Representatives is scheduled to take up a measure next week to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research. On Thursday, January 11, the House will debate overturning President Bush's limits on spending public funds on the research, which has never cured any patients.
- Baby from embryo rescued after Katrina due this month
The baby album for Rebekah Markham's soon-to-be-born child could include something extra special: photos of officers using flat-bottomed boats to rescue her frozen embryo from a sweltering hospital in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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