USA : les couples infertiles peuvent aujourdhui choisir leur enfant « grâce » à la première banque dembryons humains.
La société “Abraham Center of Life, Inc”, au Texas, offre aux couples infertiles et aussi aux personnes seules, la possibilité de se choisir un embryon. Les services de cette société sont variés : « don »d’embryons « frais », grossesse traditionelle ou recours à une mère porteuse, adoption d’embryons,….Ci-dessous leur offre de services dont la rémunération pose autant question que la pratique. (La rédaction de Quality of Life a indiqué en caractères gras, les points qui méritent la réflexion du lecteur.)
“Prospective parents can chose a donor and/or a surrogate through our extensive database of screened candidates, of whom they will be provided detailed information; which will be presented to them based on their criteria.
Our staff will guide and offer support to prospective families and their chosen egg donor and/or surrogate throughout the entire process including: finding a physician, medical screenings, psychological screenings, financial arrangements, and legal aspects of the agreements. We will act as liaisons between families and their chosen egg donor and/or surrogate as needed. Our mission is to make this a wonderful experience by offering to relieve some of the stress associated with the donation process.
We know that the process can be an expensive one, and we are one of the few services in the that offer and help coordinate a “shared” donor cycle, or, via our extensive network of medical professionals, frozen embryo donation, thus drastically cutting down on expense.
As most couples are aware, it has been medically possible for many years for the medical industry to assist infertile couples in achieving pregnancy via “in vitro fertilization”. Multiple eggs (usually between 8 and 30) are removed from either an “egg donor” or from the recipient female. These eggs are fertilized, using the sperm of the recipient’s male partner , or a sperm donor, and then 1-3 embryos are transplanted into the recipient female, prayerfully resulting in pregnancy. The leftover embryos are frozen for further use.
In many cases, where pregnancy is achieved and no further pregnancies are desired, these remaining embryos are warehoused, with the biological “creators” indecisive as to their future. The options are to destroy the remaining embryos, to donate them to science, or to donate them to other infertile families. There is currently a Calif. Based adoption agency that “places” these embryos with qualified families, even allowing for future contact with the donating family.
Although this is a great option ,, it does have it’s downfalls. Firstly, because most of these available embryos have been created from the biological matter of infertile couples, the rate of quality as a whole is lessened versus those that have been created using both a proven egg and sperm donor. Experts put the pregnancy rate at about 30%. Secondly, the biological ties with the resulting child (embryos) can have emotional repercussions for the “placing” or biological family.”