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I'm not under certain circumstances: Eggs are the genetic material of the 'carrier/mother'; every embryo created is implanted; every implanted embryo that implants is carried through to birth. I would impose strict guidelines to limit the embryos created & implanted to insure that life created is given the opportunity to flourish. Eggs should never be treated as a commodity, they aren't sperm which are created indefinitely during a man's life.
Goddamn this is funny! I had IVF this past December. Let me help you out on actual IVF technology reality. During egg retrieval surgery, they successfully retrieved 8 mature eggs from my ovaries. They performed ICSI on all 8 eggs. Of those eggs, 5 fertilized normally. After a 3 day gestational period, I had 3 - 8 cell blastocytes, and 1-5 celled embryo and 1- 4 celled embryo. They transplanted 2 of the blastocytes. (not implanted, IVF transfers the blastocytes into the cervix and hopes they decide to stick around. There is no such thing as an implant process.) Of the remaining, it takes a 5 day process of growth before they can freeze a blastocyte. The 5 celled and 4 celled embryo stopped progressing, so I was left with one blastocyte to put on ice in case the process did not work. Two implanted and one grew, so out of 8, I have 1 on ice, and 1 in the oven. This was from CCRM, which has one of the best success rates in the country.
Fertility treatments are a crap shoot. Age, genetics, drug protocal, Lab skill can all make a huge difference in the success of a particular IVF cycle. The people who got through the process pour an enormous amount of resources into it, whether financial, emotional or physical. Even with the best lab, and best physician there are no guarantees. Some of the people I know from infertility support groups have attempted IVF 4 times with no success. I've seen people complete a IVF cycle with no embryos because the cells arrest in growth after 1-2 days or fail to fertilize.
So yeah, the conditions you support IVF under, don't exist. Talk to those of us who deal with infertility after maybe another 30 years of advances in the technology.
To the ethical questions at hand.. Before we went through the IVF process, my husband and I had to decide custodial arrangements for our blastocytes.
We had to decide if one of us died, or divorced, who would get custody of the "children", or if they would be destroyed by the lab. If we chose to adopt out the embryos, we would have to get hundreds of dollars of additional genetic and blood testing, as there are legal guidelines for required testing for embryo adoption that are not required for a husband and wife. If a couple does decide to go through the testing,they have the reality of their genetic children being out in society living with strangers.
If a cycle is good, and someone has a lot of eggs retrieved, the blastocytes usually sit in storage until the couple is done with IVF attempts, or they decide to destroy them. That's approximately 400,000 stored in the US right now, many of which will not be used. Why shouldn't they be put to good use?