27 year old frozen embryo

[rlvaughn]

Baby Born From 27-Year-Old Frozen Embryo Is Just 18 Months Younger Than Her Mom

A baby from a 27-year old embryo was born in October, setting the new record for the longest-frozen embryo to ever come to birth.

Molly Everette Gibson was born from an embryo that was frozen in October 1992 — only 18 months after her 29-year-old mother, Tina Gibson of Tennessee, was born in 1991.

Molly is believed to now hold the record for the longest-frozen embryo known to result in a live birth. The baby girl beat the record previously held by her older sister Emma, who spent 24 years on ice before being delivered back in 2017, CNN reported.

The embryos Molly and Emma came from were frozen together from the same donors. This would make the sisters full genetic siblings.

“I think this is proof positive that no embryo should ever be discarded, certainly not because it is ‘old!'” said Dr. Jeffrey Keenan, President & Medical Director of theNational Embryo Donation Center. “This is also a testament to the excellent embryology work of Carol Sommerfelt. She is perhaps the preeminent embryologist in the country when it comes to thawing frozen embryos. And of course it’s a testament to how good God is, and to His infinite goodness and love.” -- Baby Molly Sets World Record: Born 27 Years After She Was Frozen as an Embryo

Medical dictionary: In humans an embryo is defined as the developing organism from the fourth day after fertilization to the end of the eighth week. (I found all definitions of embryo didn't exactly agree, but this one was fairly common.)

I guess I have never given this subject much deep thought. If life begins at conception (as many of us believe), is it really moral and ethical to freeze live human beings?

 

[Charles Perkins]

Amazing and horrifying

 

[Van]

Baby Born From 27-Year-Old Frozen Embryo Is Just 18 Months Younger Than Her Mom

I guess I have never given this subject much deep thought. If life begins at conception (as many of us believe), is it really moral and ethical to freeze live human beings?

Human life, unique from our parent's lives, begins within hours of fertilization. Now we take actions that harm part of our body to protect that unique life, such as amputation or chemo-therapy. But to delay, perhaps permanently, the development of that unique life, for the possible benefit of others, is to treat others not as we would want to be treated. Therefore, I think the practice of "freezing" embryos is sinful.

 

[canadyjd]

peace to you

 

[Ziggy]

If I were that baby, I would claim full retirement benefits at age 39, since I actually would be 66 by then....

 

[kathleenmariekg]

Embryos are sometimes issues in divorce agreements

Embryo Disputes Becoming More Common in Family Law Practice | The Legal Intelligencer

As few states have enacted statutes and as most of those statutes are unhelpful, litigation is typically the only method to resolve these disputes. There are different theories on this topic as to how to determine the most equitable way to divide frozen embryos. The most straightforward theory is the contracts-based appropriate, which has been applied by several different courts. This approach is based on agreements parties enter into during the IVF process which state their intent for the disposition of the embryos upon death, separation or divorce.

 

[canadyjd]

Baby Born From 27-Year-Old Frozen Embryo Is Just 18 Months Younger Than Her Mom

I guess I have never given this subject much deep thought. If life begins at conception (as many of us believe), is it really moral and ethical to freeze live human beings?

I haven’t thought about it much, either. Perhaps it’s a blessing this life was not discarded. Maybe an effort should be made to implant ever frozen embryo to give that baby a chance at life.

I have read that most embryos (75%?) never implant in the uterus and are expelled during the next cycle.

From a scientific viewpoint, it will be interesting to see if any complications from the long term freezing arise in this baby’s life.

peace to you

 

[SavedByGrace]

is it really moral and ethical to freeze live human beings?

morals and ethics are the last thing that the majority of governments are interested in. To me this is very disturbing and from the devil, whose main role is to try to undermine, or destroy, what the Lord has determined should be the natural way. Another evil is these sperm banks, that allow women (and in some cases men!) from using this to have children! One man here in the UK boasted that he has donated for 800 babies to be born all around the country! There can be no way the the authorities can really monitor who is who, and prevent siblings from marrying each other!!!. This is all wickedness, and our nations are paying the high cost of God's Judgement.

 

[percho]

Think about that baby born, that In due time and dependent upon God, in the context of:

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
And not only so, but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, we also ourselves in ourselves do groan, adoption expecting -- the redemption of our body;


Possible???

 

[rlvaughn]

I haven’t thought about it much, either. Perhaps it’s a blessing this life was not discarded. Maybe an effort should be made to implant ever frozen embryo to give that baby a chance at life.

Yes, I would make no criticism of those who decided to give birth to this child. I question the wisdom of producing embryos for the purpose of freezing them.

From a scientific viewpoint, it will be interesting to see if any complications from the long term freezing arise in this baby’s life.

That is an intriguing question, which I suppose time will tell. Even though the baby is about 6 weeks old, the child is in another sense 27 years old already.

 

[rlvaughn]

Now in its fifth decade, in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproduction technologies (ART) have been the answer to many families’ baby prayers. However, this success has created a surplus of frozen human embryos. That surplus is estimated at roughly 1,000,000 in the United States [emp. mine]. Many biological parents store their frozen embryos for future use. -- National Embryo Donation Center | IVF & Embryo Adoption

 

[canadyjd]

1,000,000 frozen embryos! Astonishing.

peace to you

 

[SavedByGrace]

While it might be considered helpful to some. It cannot be the way God intended it to be for babies to be produced in a lab and implanted in the womb of a woman. There are other issues that are not often made public enough

1.7 million embryos created for IVF have been thrown away, and just 7 per cent lead to pregnancy | Daily Mail Online

 

[Benjamin]

Next thing you know people will want to get their head frozen so they can get it slapped on a new body in couple hundred years. ...oh, wait...

 

[SavedByGrace]

Next thing you know people will want to get their head frozen so they can get it slapped on a new body in couple hundred years. ...oh, wait...

you are not wrong! Teenager cancer victim becomes the first British child to be cryogenically frozen | Daily Mail Online

 

[church mouse guy]

I thought that the frozen chosen were Presbyterians....

 

[SavedByGrace]

I thought that the frozen chosen were Presbyterians....

 

[canadyjd]

I thought that the frozen chosen were Presbyterians....

I had a Pentecostal youth tell me that when the Bible says the “dead in Christ will rise first” that it was referring to baptists.

peace to you

 

[SavedByGrace]

I had a Pentecostal youth tell me that when the Bible says the “dead in Christ will rise first” that it was referring to baptists.

peace to you

and the JW's think that they will be the only to rise!

 

[church mouse guy]

I had a Pentecostal youth tell me that when the Bible says the “dead in Christ will rise first” that it was referring to baptists.

peace to you

That’s a good one....