Donating frozen embryo to research - Shady Grove

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Anonymous wrote:They will likely be destroyed. When I had a leftover embryo they said they weren’t taking any for research (they probably already had too many). So I chose to implant it and of course it took.

were you otherwise planning to have more kids? is there a religious reason why it's okay to use them for research but not to destroy them?

I was, but I probably would have thought harder about the timing if I thought the transfer would work. But like I said, kid is here and we can’t imagine our family without him.

We are Catholic and we went in not knowing what we would do if we ended up with too many embryos. We felt ok donating to research even though that results in destruction of the embryo, at least it is a useful purpose. We did not feel ok about outright discarding.

makes sense