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"Souls On Ice: America's Embryo Glut and the Wasted Promise of Stem Cell Research
How 500,000 frozen embryos are forcing us to rethink life, choice, and reproductive freedom
Liza Mundy
July/August 2006 Issue
Aanis Elspas is a mother of four. Unlike most parents, she had three of her children simultaneously. The nine-year-old triplets were born in 1997 after Elspas underwent a series of in vitro fertilization treatments for infertility. Her oldest child, 10, is the happy result of a prior ivf treatment round. Elspas worked hard to get her children, and is grateful to have them. But four, thanks very much, are plenty. The problem is that Elspas also has 14 embryos left over from the treatment that produced her 10-year-old. The embryos are stored in liquid nitrogen at a California frozen storage facility%u2014she is not entirely sure where%u2014while Elspas and her husband ponder what to do with them.
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