[PlumberKhan]

Originally Posted by Axil

But it's not a personal issue. If life does in fact begin at conception, abortion is murder.

If so, than in-vitro clinics murder just like abortion clinics.

There is no method to dispose of the excess embryos that is morally acceptable to everyone. Occasionally, an infertile couple will need to go back for a second try at achieving a pregnancy. This happens when the first procedure did not produce a pregnancy, or when the couple wants to have an additional child. One or more additional embryos are then removed from storage, thawed out, and implanted. But even when that happens, perhaps 16 of the couple's embryos will still remain frozen. These surplus embryos will almost inevitably be destroyed:

• Perhaps 50% do not survive the freezing or thawing process.
• Others will die during storage.
• Equipment malfunction, perhaps after decades of storage, might destroy hundreds of embryos.
• Some parents ask that the surplus embryos be destroyed in order to save the cost of maintaining them in storage.
• Some clinics simply dispose of surplus embryos without freezing them.