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The Calgary Herald<\/em> reports that\u00a0fewer than\u00a05% (20,000) of the roughly 400,000 frozen embryos at fertility clinics in the United States have been abandoned by their parents.\u00a0 It suggests that\u00a0over 135,000 frozen embryos\u00a0are\u00a0stored at clinics in Canada; a\u00a0 5% rate\u00a0would\u00a0imply over 6,700\u00a0abandoned embryos.\u00a0 That figure might be too low, since one clinic is reported to have 1,000\u00a0“unclaimed” embryos.\u00a0 The American Society for Reproductive Medicine has decided that clinics can destroy embryos that have been abandoned for at least five years, the parents cannot be located, and there are no written instructions to indicate what should be done with them.\u00a0 The guidance is legally and ethically contested. [Calgary Herald<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Calgary Herald reports that\u00a0fewer than\u00a05% (20,000) of the roughly 400,000 frozen embryos at fertility clinics in the United States have been abandoned by their parents.\u00a0 It suggests that\u00a0over 135,000 frozen embryos\u00a0are\u00a0stored at clinics in Canada; a\u00a0 5% rate\u00a0would\u00a0imply over 6,700\u00a0abandoned embryos.\u00a0 That figure might be too low, since one clinic is reported to have … Continue reading “Embryos abandoned by parents present ethical, legal quandary”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[1087,1086,1085],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-4553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-reproduction","tag-american-society-for-reproductive-medicine","tag-embryos","tag-in-vitro-fertilization"],"yoast_head":"\r\nEmbryos abandoned by parents present ethical, legal quandary - 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