Woman loses final round of battle to use her frozen embryos

Smallpox eradication--the final battle.

The biopolitics of frozen embryos.

The unresolved debate about frozen embryos has left open the discussion on "what to do with them". There are only three ways to deal with frozen embryos: 1) to leave them frozen indefinitely; 2) to defrost and discard them and 3) to use them for research. In this paper, we suggest that the application of current scientific knowledge, instead of inappropriately referring to ethical principles or...

P-42: Who Owns the Frozen Embryos?

Background: Success in assisted reproductive techniques is raising hope for many infertile couples, but as in these techniques many embryos are made, there is no choice other than cryopreservation of the not-transferred embryos. Along with development of these techniques, the number of In-vitro made embryos is rising and the number of transferred embryos is decreasing to prevent multiple gestat...

Expectations of a pregnant woman in relation to her treatment.

dear Noel Coward. Then I played in Macbeth. I was the apparition and Duncan's child. I had, of course, to be killed, and it was funny when as the apparition wearing a silken veil, and with my throat gashed, the veil caught fire at the cauldron and had to be quenched by the witches. Ha, Ha! Those were the times." I declined a cigarette, pointing out with some regret that I had given them up. "Ye...

The validity of contracts to dispose of frozen embryos.

The widespread abandonment of frozen embryos by the gamete providers or intentional parents urgently demands a solution. Most centres react by requiring patients to enter a prior agreement governing the future disposition of their embryos in all foreseeable circumstances. These dispositional directives are inappropriate and self defeating in the event of contingencies in which the patients rema...