X-Message-Number: 6692
From: Gary Walsh <>
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: BRITISH DESTRUCTION OF EMBRYOS - any Ref?
Date: 5 Aug 1996 13:39:36 GMT
Message-ID: <4u4tio$>
References: <4u0ruj$> <>

There appears to be a major difference between the current issue 
involving embryos and that of cryonics patients.

Cryonics patients are suspended using current technology with a
belief that future technology will allow them to revived.  Nobody
would argue that a cryonics patient could be revived using current
technology.  

Embryos are frozen using current technology with the assumption thay
they will be unfrozen (defrosted sounds a little unpleasant!) and 
implanted using current technology.  Even immediately after
fertilisation, many of these embryos are classed as unlikely to be
viable; freezing does not help the situation.  The reason that so many
are being destroyed is not that the 'parents' are not responding, it is
primarily because they are the product of donor sperm which is donated
anonymously and so it is impossible to trace the parents.


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