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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aren’t there many families who would love a donated embryo?

Please reconsider, OP. [/quote]

Eh, I don't agree with this.  Knowing that I had a biological child out there, that was a full sibling to my children, would be something very hard for me.  With 23andMe type kits everywhere, this would never remain a secret.  I just...can't do that.

I realize gamete and embryo donation helps other people conceive.  But it's certainly not a "oh just do it!" type of thing.[/quote]

But you could destroy it, simply because something would be "very hard" for you. Your moral compass is... interesting.[/quote]

The fact that you think a woman should forced to carry a pregnancy and go through childbirth, which comes with risks at OPs age, just to avoid thawing cells that have divided for 3-5 days, is also disturbing. OP is the mother of 2 living children and she should make the appropriate choice for her physical and mental health as well as the health of her marriage so that she can be the parent she wants to be to those children. If she doesn’t want to donate her DNA to a stranger, that’s her choice.

Instead of worrying about cells that you can’t see with the naked eye, please go volunteer with poor kids or advocate for better maternity leave and social safety net programs for families in poverty. [/quote]

The PP never said they would destroy the embryo. They also never said they would force someone else too. They specifically said “I” just can’t. Everyone else is assuming what PP would do instead. I imagined they would use the embryo themselves. [/quote]

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