To the editor:

A recent letter about abortion elicited hundreds of comments at LJWorld.com. Several writers mentioned the practice of in-vitro fertilizations at fertility clinics that then destroy viable zygotes or store thousands of such fertilized eggs frozen. My daughter in California met a girl who had been a frozen zygote for several years before she was legally adopted, implanted and brought to term, concluding in a normal birth with parents who had no genetic connection.

President Bush hosted a gathering at the White House of formerly frozen embryos and their adoptive birth parents. Bush was accused of using these children to draw support for prohibiting medical research on other human embryos cultured in labs or harvested by abortionists.

The children Bush invited to the White House attend school with their nonpreviously-frozen peers and one cannot tell the difference between the frozen and the fresh on the playground. In the wider world, the Vietnamese culture assigns ages to children based on when their life began before birth. With this Asian ethic, these children are considered older than they appear considering the time they spent in cryogenic suspension before the pregnancies of their birth mothers.

Consider the possibilities of giving birth to twins five years apart, or giving birth to one’s own uncle or aunt! Ponder the ability of a woman to give birth to her husband’s child years after he dies of cancer.

How many of us have considered the possibility of adopting a frozen embryo? Hundreds of families already have.

Doug Robinson,
Lawrence