More Snowflake News[Reposted, because somehow it got copied over by the book post]
The Vests were unable to conceive, and Cara's husband Gregg was diagnosed with a sperm disorder. Then Cara was told she had the "ovaries of a 40-year-old." They considered using a donated egg
Um, but with Gregg's sperm disorder, how is that going to help anything? or adopting a child, until she heard about an embryo-adoption agency while listening to "Focus on the Family," a Christian radio show. She called the agency, Snowflakes, and two years later she and Gregg had adopted 23 embryos. The Vests believe that life begins at conception, so adopting 23 embryos meant becoming the parents of 23 children. Never mind only two-thirds would survive the thawing, and even fewer would develop into babies. The Vests thought at least these embryos would all have a chance at life instead of being disposed of or used in stem-cell research.
Yes, better to give an innocent Microscopic-American a chance at life than do something to help a child that had already been born.
Here's more about the Vests from CBN (Christian Broadcasting Network): CBN News asked the Vests, "With embryo adoption, of course, you get to experience pregnancy. How important was that option for you?" Cara said, "For me, it was such an important aspect of it. I mean, I wanted to experience pregnancy. I wanted to feel the child kick. I wanted to be the one in control of what I ate, and what I was exposed to."
Yeah, why adopt a kid whose birth mother probably ate junk food and watched smut during the pregnancy when you can adopt an embryo and be in control of it right from the first? (Disclamer: I don't think there's anything wrong with using a donated embryo if a couple has fertility problems, but I don't think it should be pitched as moral, selfless way to save an innocent pre-born baby's life. The selfless thing to do would be to take one of those already born kids who may not have had the ideal start at life.)
Anyway, of the Vests' twenty-three adopted children, two have been born, three are still in their frozen orphanage, and eighteen tragically didn't survive thawing. I imagine that the Vests had a nice funeral for the little sprouts, and then buried them in microscopic caskets.
And here are a few words from Rod Stoddart, the Executive Director of Nightlight Christian Adoption.. "An embryo is not an egg, not a sperm; it's a baby. It's a baby at its very earliest stage of development. But it's a baby, and the idea of destroying it is the same as abortion," said Stoddart. [...] Stoddart says as long as there is in-vitro fertilization, there are going to be leftover embryos. He says programs like Snowflakes offer hope, not only for these frozen little lives, but for couples who may not be able to conceive a child any other way.
But since the vast majority of Microscopic-Americans created via in-vitro fertilization will die (even the frozen ones who find good, Christian families to adopt them), shouldn't in-vitro, like abortion, be outlawed? Although embryo adoption is still in its infancy, children like Savannah and Morgan Gillingham and Jonah Vest are helping people realize that frozen embryos are actual babies just waiting to be born.
Just like acorns are actual oak trees, except that they aren't much fun to build tree houses in. Anyway, let's take a moment to mourn the billons of actual baby blastocysts that never got implanted in the womb, and died lonely, unremarked deaths, since Mother Nature apparently doesn't consider them to be actual babies yet, and so doesn't let Mr. Stoddart (or even their mothers) know that they have passed on.
Now, back to the Science Daily piece: Embryo-adoption programs developed from the belief that an embryo is already a human being, needing only a womb to bring it into the world. The Snowflakes embryo-adoption program began in 1997 as an extension of Nightlight Christian Adoptions in Fullerton, Calif. Snowflakes matches infertile couples -- and the occasional single woman -- with embryos left over from in vitro procedures, although gay couples are not encouraged to apply.
Yes, while these most vulnerable member of our society face decades of loneliness in their icy orphanage (or dismemberment at the hands of evil stem-cell researchers, or being tossed out with the ice-cream that developed ice crystals), such fates are better than being raised by a gay family.
Anyway, this is the part of the article that I found most disturbing: Since 2002, Congress has allocated $2 million to raise public awareness of embryo adoption.
Because homeless embryos truly are one of our nation's most pressing concerns. | 
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