Owen Barritt (hmmm_tea) wrote,
Owen Barritt
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  • Mood: distressed

IVF Treatment (Owen's been thinking again and has more opinions...)

The discussions about the withdrawl of concent about IVF treatment in the news lately has been very enlightening to me as to how it works and I don't think I like it.

In principle I'm not against treatments to help people have children. However, keeping sperm and eggs frozen is one thing, keeping fertilised embryos is another.

Once that embryo has been created it's a life, what right have we to bung it in a freezer and decide whether it gets to carry on with that life or not?
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