Are there limits regarding the acceptance of donated embryos?
if (!isNS4) {document.write(”);} Healthy children have been born from embryos that had been frozen for more than 12 years. Most experienced embryo adoption agencies will not stipulate a maximize cryopreservation time limit. They generally will accept all embryo donations regardless of the genetic mother’s age, length of storage, medical grading or stage of embryo development. All of these items will be disclosed to the potential adopting family as a part of the matching process. if (!isNS4) {document.write(”);} • What will happen to my frozen embryos if I choose not to donate them to another family? if (!isNS4) {document.write(”);} Should you choose not to donate your embryos, the options are to destroy them in the process of medical research, allow them to thaw and die, or do nothing and keep them in storage until a later time. Not making a decision is much the same as making the decision to destroy the embryos. Frozen embryos do not have an indefinite shelf-life and will eventuall
