Leftover Embryos – What Shall You Do With Them? | Surrogacy & Egg Donation Issues

Duke University Medical Center released a new study this week regarding embryo donation for research. They found in their study that more than 41% of patients who had finished fertility treatments and had leftover embryos would rather donate them to research than to another couple.

These findings are significant considering that the national debate regarding research using stem cells and embryos is highly controversial. However, the patients that said they would donate their excess embryos to research said that they would rather donate to research because they did not want the embryos to become children in families other than their own.

Additionally, these patients also said that donating the excess embryos to research was easier than simply destroying the embryos outright. Could this mean that the nation’s feelings about stem cell and embryo research are changing?

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Leftover Embryos – What Shall You Do With Them?

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