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March 13, 2009
Population explosion in the freezer
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Ellen Goodman
The Boston Globe

I hate to revisit Nadya Suleman, the woman so charmingly dubbed "octomom" by the tabloids. Especially now when she's busy chatting with Dr. Phil, raising money on her website, and preparing to move with 14 children into a new $565,000 shoe, excuse me, house.

But there is a reason for all of us to be grateful to octomom. She has created a consensus where none existed. We now know exactly what should not be done with the leftover embryos languishing in fertility clinic freezers. They should not be given to Nadya.

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Cindy   March 13th, 2009 2:59 pm ET

It's really no ones business how many embryos that people keep in cryo and for how long. If they want to keep them even after they are dead for their families to have then that is their business as long as they are willing to pay the price to store them. Not everyone thinks that the embryo is nothing but a piece of meat to do with as you will. A lot feel like ocotmom that they are babies from day one and they would never give them over to be used as research. It's their choice.

What..now are we going to start telling people that they can only keep them a certain amount of time and they have to destroy or give them over to research?

Cindy..Ga.

Isabel, Brazil   March 13th, 2009 3:28 pm ET

Nadya Suleman again? lol...

So we are two! I also hate revisiting Nadya Suleman.

I think if the producers of AC has a 'relationship' more strait with bloggers, if they think in me every time they put something on the octuplets mother.

So, after months of complaining I in the liveblog the whole time she appeared, I was thinking the reason that the producers wanted to insist: to show that motherhood should be responsible.

People should be aware of what is to have 1 son ... awareness and responsibility

GF, Los Angeles   March 13th, 2009 4:04 pm ET

I'm glad Obama lifted the ban. That's a very good point that there are leftover embryos that are using up space and energy to keep them frozen. It's a great opportunity to use them for stem cell research to help others instead of just sitting there indefinitely.

Annie Kate   March 13th, 2009 7:46 pm ET

I find it hard to believe that the embryos can be kept frozen indefinitely. Frozen food is not good after so long in the freezer; I would think the shelf life of a frozen embryo would be even shorter. But if the doctors are right then we need to come up with a routine way to dispose of the extras after the couple has their child. If they want to keep some fine but at least have a time limit on it. It doesn't make sense to keep the embryos past the time the mother could physically bear them because of age.

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