Frozen Embryo

The Southern Baptist Convention voted Wednesday to condemn the use of in vitro fertilization and commend congregants who use alternative fertility therapies or adopt frozen embryos.

Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she considers frozen embryos created through in-vitro fertilization "babies," siding with the Alabama Supreme Court on an issue that resonates with conservative voters.

The far-reaching implications of this decision are raising concerns among legal experts, medical professionals, and reproductive rights advocates.

The National Embryo Donation Center says the twins, named Lydia and Timothy Ridgeway, are the longest-frozen embryos to result in a live birth.

When their marriage fell apart, the most contentious issue between Ruby Torres and John Joseph Terrell was the fate of their frozen embryos. There were seven in storage, created with her eggs and his sperm before Torres underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatment for breast cancer.

The news hit Niki Schaefer hard. About 2,000 frozen embryos and eggs may have been destroyed by a lab malfunction at the University Hospitals Fertility Center in Cleveland.

It's unclear at this point what led to the malfunctions. Both human error and mechanical failure are possibilities.

A long-established San Francisco fertility clinic had a liquid nitrogen failure in a storage tank in which thousands of eggs and embryos are kept frozen for future use, jeopardizing the tissue that hundreds of women have deposited there in hope of having children.

When Tina Gibson got married seven years ago, the 26-year-old knew it was unlikely that she would have children naturally. Her husband, 33-year-old Benjamin Gibson, had cystic fibrosis, a condition that can make men infertile, the couple told CNN.

A US woman has successfully delivered a baby with a 25-year-old frozen embryo -- the longest known frozen human embryo.

A 46-year-old woman in south China has given birth to a healthy baby from an embryo frozen 16 years ago, health officials announced.

Days after NDTV brought you the story of an Indian-origin British couple struggling to get back their frozen embryos from India after the commercial surrogacy ban, many couples in London have come forward with a similar plea to the Indian government.

A UK base, Indian-origin couple are unable to receive frozen embryos they shipped to India for surrogacy three years ago, after the government suggested changes to existing surrogacy rules.

A healthy baby girl was born in China from an embryo frozen 18 years ago, medical officials said on Wednesday.

We live in a world with hundreds of thousands of embryos frozen in the United States alone. Most who aren't selected by their biological parents are donated to science or destroyed or kept frozen. If Christians - or others - really believe life begins at conception, it follows that we should respond by being willing to support embryo adoption and e...

The Southern Baptist Convention voted Wednesday to condemn the use of in vitro fertilization and commend congregants who use alternative fertility therapies or adopt frozen embryos.

Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she considers frozen embryos created through in-vitro fertilization "babies," siding with the Alabama Supreme Court on an issue that resonates with conservative voters.

The far-reaching implications of this decision are raising concerns among legal experts, medical professionals, and reproductive rights advocates.

The National Embryo Donation Center says the twins, named Lydia and Timothy Ridgeway, are the longest-frozen embryos to result in a live birth.

When their marriage fell apart, the most contentious issue between Ruby Torres and John Joseph Terrell was the fate of their frozen embryos. There were seven in storage, created with her eggs and his sperm before Torres underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatment for breast cancer.

The news hit Niki Schaefer hard. About 2,000 frozen embryos and eggs may have been destroyed by a lab malfunction at the University Hospitals Fertility Center in Cleveland.

It's unclear at this point what led to the malfunctions. Both human error and mechanical failure are possibilities.

A long-established San Francisco fertility clinic had a liquid nitrogen failure in a storage tank in which thousands of eggs and embryos are kept frozen for future use, jeopardizing the tissue that hundreds of women have deposited there in hope of having children.

When Tina Gibson got married seven years ago, the 26-year-old knew it was unlikely that she would have children naturally. Her husband, 33-year-old Benjamin Gibson, had cystic fibrosis, a condition that can make men infertile, the couple told CNN.

A US woman has successfully delivered a baby with a 25-year-old frozen embryo -- the longest known frozen human embryo.

A 46-year-old woman in south China has given birth to a healthy baby from an embryo frozen 16 years ago, health officials announced.

Days after NDTV brought you the story of an Indian-origin British couple struggling to get back their frozen embryos from India after the commercial surrogacy ban, many couples in London have come forward with a similar plea to the Indian government.

A UK base, Indian-origin couple are unable to receive frozen embryos they shipped to India for surrogacy three years ago, after the government suggested changes to existing surrogacy rules.

A healthy baby girl was born in China from an embryo frozen 18 years ago, medical officials said on Wednesday.

We live in a world with hundreds of thousands of embryos frozen in the United States alone. Most who aren't selected by their biological parents are donated to science or destroyed or kept frozen. If Christians - or others - really believe life begins at conception, it follows that we should respond by being willing to support embryo adoption and e...