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Evangelicals Embryo Adoption: Devout Christians Seek A Future For Thousands Of Frozen Embryos
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Sep 11, 2012 08:06pm |
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| Category | Perspective |
| Author | Krista Kapralos |
| Media | Website - Huffington Post |
| News Date | Monday, September 10, 2012 11:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The embryo was frozen in liquid nitrogen when Gabriel and Callie Fluhrer found it. They didn't know whether that embryo would grow to be a boy or a girl, or whether it would even grow at all.
But to the Fluhrers, it was worth the risk. That tiny collection of cells was a baby, they believed. And if they didn't pluck it from the warehouse where it had been stored since its biological parents decided they didn't need or want it any longer, it was likely to die.
Hundreds of thousands of embryos are stored in high-tech storage facilities across the United States. To an increasing number evangelical Christians, that's hundreds of thousands of babies.
Conservative Christians have long joined hands to oppose abortion, often following the lead of the Roman Catholic Church. But evangelicals are leading the charge in adopting embryos, and encouraging people who have stockpiles of frozen embryos to make them available for adoption.
"I wanted to give weight to the idea that it is a responsibility of the church to stand up and defend all human life, including embryos in the freezer," she said. |
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