Katrina Rescue Team Saves Abandoned Embryos

[Southpaw Bookworm]

Not sure what to make of this. I'm sure that the parents in question will be pleased, but still, couldn't rescuers time be better spent on living human beings?


One of the more dramatic rescue stories from Hurricane Katrina comes from New Orleans East, where doctors and law enforcement officials saved more than 1,000 frozen embryos from a flooded and abandoned hospital.

Prior to Hurricane Katrina's landfall, doctors and staff from the Fertility Institute moved embryos from their clinic to the third floor of nearby Lakeland Hospital. The embryos were stored in four large metal canisters weighing about 80 pounds each.

"Altogether there were about twelve hundred embryos, or about 300 in each canister," said Roman Pyrzak, laboratory director of the Fertility Institute. The fertilized eggs came from more than 200 patients.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/HurricaneKatrina/story?id=1145996&page=1

[KyndCulture]

1. I'm sure the republicans will be over joyed.

:shrug:


weird story for sure.

[Missy M]

2. Yes rescuers time could have been better spent but after all the....

embryos weren't from poor people so they had to be rescued. To make matters worse the story says "one of the more dramatic rescue stories".

[jilln]

3. So the government refuses to help animals

but they have time for embryos?


This is sickening.

[acmejack]

4. Thank God they saved the helpus unborn!

Remember, the gop cares about them, it's the born they despise.

[Benhurst]

5. But did they remember to send a rescue team to

the local sperm bank?

[Southpaw Bookworm]

6. Every sperm is sacred . . .

:evilgrin:

[musical_soul]

7. Lots of human beings to focus on.

Forget them, let's save the embryos. Sheesh.