{"id":55162,"date":"2016-07-20T00:15:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T00:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_mag-_the_americans_who_adopt_other_peoples_embryos\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T00:15:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T00:15:30","slug":"bbc_mag-_the_americans_who_adopt_other_peoples_embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55162","title":{"rendered":"(BBC mag.) The Americans who &#39;adopt&#39; other people&#39;s embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couples who struggle to conceive a child are sometimes given the option of using a donated embryo. In the US this is commonly referred to as &#8220;embryo adoption&#8221;, particularly at Christian clinics, where it is regarded as saving a life &#8211; and where the future parents may have to be married and heterosexual to be eligible for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>When Jennifer and Aaron Wilson found they could not get pregnant, they knew exactly what they wanted to do.<\/p>\n<p>The couple from North Carolina had the choice of starting in vitro fertilisation (IVF), in which mature eggs are fertilised with sperm in a laboratory. Or they could have tried to adopt a child already in need of a home.<\/p>\n<p>Instead they applied to a specialist Christian fertility clinic in Knoxville, Tennessee &#8211; the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC) &#8211; which promised to help them &#8220;adopt&#8221; an embryo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-36450328\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couples who struggle to conceive a child are sometimes given the option of using a donated embryo. In the US this is commonly referred to as &#8220;embryo adoption&#8221;, particularly at Christian clinics, where it is regarded as saving a life<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55162\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,101,168,104,96,98,177,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}