"Embryo adoptions" a mix of science, religion, emotion

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By Carol M. Ostrom

The way Randy and Julie McClure saw it, Asa was being held captive in a tank of liquid nitrogen as surely as if he'd been a plantation slave or a prisoner in a concentration camp.

The McClures were in their 40s, with three children and no plans for more. But when the devoutly Christian Bellevue couple heard a radio show about "embryo adoption," they realized they had the power — and the womb — to free Asa from his frozen limbo.

Today, after 10 years in a Texas fertility-clinic tank, Asa is a happy, babbling 10-month-old, one of 81 formerly frozen embryos being raised by families that worked with Snowflakes, a program run by a Christian adoption agency in California.

Stored at fertility clinics around the country, an estimated 400,000 frozen embryos, clumps of four to six cells smaller than a typewritten period, are the object of increasingly emotional rhetoric.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002341740_frozen20m.html

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1. So much emotion... for such a small amount of time

I'd like to know what becomes of the emotional commitment of these people, once these embryos develop into children, and dreadfully later, hormone-driven, rebellious, heathen young adults, who still must be fed, clothed, housed and schooled.

Of course, they almost certainly voted for Dubya, which makes all of the aforementioned increasingly damn near impossible to accomplish.