Hello family and friends,
Today the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards will be discussing, among other things, the permissibility of choosing which embryos to implant in a woman during intra vitro fertilization based on their genetic make-up. There's a technical name for it that I can't recall right now. The rabbinical school heard a presentation on it this morning and it was quite fascinating. I then received this e-mail to a listserv that I am on. We live a brave new world.
I hope all is well.
Adam
Law Offices of
JAMES A. SHRYBMAN, P.C.
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Surrogacy, Adoption, Embryo Donation/Adoption, and other Reproductive Legal Matters
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September 25, 2007
Dear Jewish Friends and Family,
L'shana tova! I hope you all had fulfilling and inspirational high holidays, along with great food. I feel so lucky to have so much to share with Shelly, my children, new grandson, extended family, and friends.
That brings me to the purpose of this e-mail note. As you know, my work primarily involves helping people build their family when they have difficulty in doing so. I have one situation in which I need your help.
I have a Jewish couple who have built their family with fertility treatments involving in vitro fertilization. They were happily successful early on. Now they have a number of cryopreserved (frozen) embryos remaining stored in a laboratory.
This couple is finished building their family. But they want to give life to their other embryos with another family, rather than donating them for research. I handle this type of embryo donation/adoption case, but I don't have a Jewish couple right now, who are working on building their family in this way.
The donor couple would prefer a Jewish family. The "family" could be a single person, a traditional couple, or a gay couple. They could be childless, or already have a child or children and want to build their family more. The embryo transfer procedure could be to the intended mother herself, or to a surrogate (gestational carrier) for the intended parent(s). The family could live in the USA, or Israel, or anywhere for that matter. I would handle the secular law and process and consult their Rabbi on his or her view of the Halacha pertaining to the case.
I didn't know a better way than contacting all of you to sort of put the word out about this opportunity. Thank you and I hope you all have a healthy, happy, and prosperous new year.
With warm regards,
Jimmy
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2 comments:
My first thought - People shouldn't be able to openly discriminate in certain situations based on religion.
My second (probably more accurate) thought - These embryos belong to these people. They should be able to do whatever they want with them. Would a doctor force a person who wants to donate a kidney to their son to donate it to the person highest up on the donor list?
Even though it's hard to imagine, these embryos are like these people's children. If their religion is that important to them, that they want their adopted families to raise them Jewish, more power to them. I guess religious discrimination is acceptable...Sometimes.
I don't think that they should be able to decide who gets their embryos, even if they embryos did belong to them. The point of giving away the embryos is to help others who cannot have their own children have children. By limitting these embryos only to Jewish people, they are taking away potential children to people that cannot have their own. As well, why should they care who their embryos are going to if there are no Jewsih people that want these embryos right now anyways?
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