WOMENSTD 324 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 14: Embryo Transfer, Embryo Donation, Egg Donation
12 Apr 2016
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Extra embryos ethics of cryopreservaion in ecuador and elsewhere (roberts: the ethical debate about the proper use of embryos boils down to the status of embryos. For these paients, what matered most was that embryos stayed within the family"s purview and were not abandoned while the family moved on in ime without them or abandoned to someone unknown. Aitudes toward adopion, and egg donaion, in the ivf clinics of quito and. Quito understands relatedness as formed through substances and inherited traits such as blood and genes. These anxieies had less to do with the status of embryos as live persons than with kin obligaions that construct embryos as members of one paricular family at one paricular temporal moment. Preferable to discard embryos rather than freeze them. Embryos are indeed connected to biographies, not of individuals but of families: frozen embryos signaled future children that might be abandoned, not current or future life that must be preserved.
