Sound like a spoof? It isn’t. An embryo was conceived via in vitro fertilization in 1990, and then frozen at the zygote stage (single cell). After nearly 20 years, the embryo was donated to a woman who was infertile. The embryo was implanted, resulting in a live birth to a 6 lb 15 oz baby boy in May 2010.
How does one “date” a child like this? Technically he is already 20 years old before he ever celebrates his first birthday. Interesting.
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October 18, 2010 at 4:07 pm
That is wild! Wow. I’m glad you posted this because I recently listened to a podcast that discussed IVF in light of the recent Nobel Prize awarded to the inventor of that process, and I was wondering exactly how it worked with frozen embryos, that is, how long could they be frozen and still be used. That is crazy. So technically they can be held indefinitely. I find that amazing that the life can, in effect, be frozen like that, then thawed out and the biological process starts back up (or however it works).
BTW, the picture here is cracking me up. Hate to change that diaper. A single trashbag for every mess. Sorry, too funny. :). lol.
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October 18, 2010 at 4:16 pm
They say the quality of the embryo diminishes over time. So only a fraction of thawed embryos survive the thawing, implanation, and gestation process.
It raises an interesting theological question about the status of the soul of these frozen embryos. Clearly they are not dead, so I have no reason to believe their soul ever departs from their body. Could their soul remain there indefinitely? What would it be doing?
Yeah, I thought that picture was funny too.
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