Souls, going down the laboratory's drain

ABSTRACT

Assisted Reproductive Technology [ART] is a blessing but soon South Asian countries might turn into "human embryo markets" as lessons taught by "kidney transplant issues in South East Asia". In Marie Woolf's article in Times online, it was pointed out that per year "IVF clinics destroy 1m waste embryos". As many as 400,000 frozen embryos were present in USA in 2004. Some of the G7 countries are trying to make ethical and legal policies on it. We need to start making our own policies considering our own values, rather then try cleaning up the mess of unethical, soul-less healthcare personnel. With the vast variety of cultural diversity and variation of moral values and virtues of different nations, a universal policy for dealing with the extra embryos is no where to be found as yet