Frozen Embryos: Policy Issues

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Freezing of live human embryos in cleavage stages was highlighted in the U.S. media a year or so ago when an American couple died in a plane crash, leaving an heir in the United States and two frozen human embryos in an infertility center in Melbourne, Australia. Media attention focused on the legal status of the embryos with respect to inheritance,1 but other broader issues have been cited as well.2 3 4 Because freezing of embryos as an adjunct to external human fertilization (in vitro fertilization) is beginning to be done in the United States,1 such issues will have to be addressed, . . .