(I find news of this new "Embryo Bank" VERY Disturbing. It was bad enough that our so-called "president" is helping to promote "Snowflake Babies" at the White House, as an alternative to using leftover Fertility Clinic Human Blastocysts (NOT "Embryos" as the MSM calls them) as an alternative to giving them to Stem Cell research labs and then turns around and say he is against International baby brokers and Human Trafficking, but this one takes unethical Capitalism to a new level.
Maybe it's just me, but this seems like just one step away from brokering and/or selling of extra Body Parts and/or Babies. The so-called "Embryo Bank" is not the brokering of extra Human Blastocysts, as you will see in the text (or hear in the audio) at the link below, the woman who runs this "Embryo Bank" recruits young women who are willing to supply (sell) her eggs and then "...charge $2,500 per embryo..." to her "clients." Ms Ryan says she's "...not troubled by what I do...," but to put it simply, she finds Poor Women willing to sell "extra" parts of their body to people who have the money to pay for them. Or am I over reacting here?) Listen to this story...
by Joe Palca
All Things Considered, January 8, 2007 · A company in San Antonio, Texas, is creating what it says is the world's first embryo bank. The embryos in the bank will not be used for research. Instead, they'll be available to infertile couples who wish to have a child. Even so, the very notion of an embryo bank raises some difficult legal and ethical questions.
The embryo bank at the Abraham Center of Life is run by Jennalee Ryan. For the past 20 years or so, she's been running an adoption agency. She says the bank is just one more way she can help people have children.
"I've labeled it the world's first human-embryo bank, although as of yet, it's a bank without anything in it," Ryan says. "And the reason for that is because, as these embryos become available to families that are looking for children, they're all taken."
To produce the first set of embryos for the bank, Ryan found a young woman willing to supply her eggs. She bought the sperm over the Internet. Put the two together, and you get an embryo.
"We charge $2,500 per embryo, which goes towards the cost of the services, and that includes the medications, the fees that the egg donors are paid, and so forth...."
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6749036>
Also, here's a link to the best website I've found regarding the stages of the Human Embryo:
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http://www.visembryo.com/baby/carnegiestages.html>
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