Comments on: Does the LDS Church have a position on left over embryos frozen from IVF? https://askgramps.org/lds-church-position-left-embryos-frozen-ivf/ Moral answers to everyday concerns, curiosities, and uncertainties. Gramps considers all questions on all topics from all sources. Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:14:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: Aubrey Richardson https://askgramps.org/lds-church-position-left-embryos-frozen-ivf/#comment-35730 Fri, 19 May 2017 17:10:00 +0000 https://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=36542#comment-35730 In reply to Momofboys.

Can you tell me where this blog is, we are 3 months pregnant with an adopted embryo and I have the same questions about if this child is sealed to us.
Thank you

]]> By: Jennifer Ridge Schlaline https://askgramps.org/lds-church-position-left-embryos-frozen-ivf/#comment-35610 Sun, 19 Mar 2017 23:17:00 +0000 https://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=36542#comment-35610 I was an egg donor long ago for a married couple. I was also married and had my own children. I sought counsel and my husband agreed that the egg and sperm are merely tissues/DNA. The spirit of the child would be one that chose that family. And if no children were choosing that family, then the embryos wouldn’t matter. Please understand from a medical perspective, many many women get pregnant and abort the fetus several times in their lives. It all happened within this 28 days cycle (2week embryos). Our bodies discard them and often we don’t even know there was a conception. Also, from a spiritual perspective, our embryos/fetuses are the vehicle in which a spirit enters to experience mortality. Your frozen embryos do not contain trapped spirits within them. The spirits of your child(ren) commune with you (mother) and Heavenly Father while in gestation. They are being prepared, and still have free will to choose this mortality all the way up till birth. Why do woman have a glow while pregnant? Because it’s the closest feeling we can have to our Father in Heaven, while mortals. It brings us home for a time being. It’s sacred. (Sorry guys, you get the priesthood, we get to grow life 0:-) So I would not feel turmoil in disposing of an embryo. I also would not feel turmoil in donating them. But the latter, can be more challenging IMHO. Perhaps you have gotten no answer, because you need not do anything. If it’s costing you heartache, or expensive to keep them frozen, remember the child chooses their mission just as we all did. Much Love to you.

]]> By: Noni https://askgramps.org/lds-church-position-left-embryos-frozen-ivf/#comment-35583 Wed, 08 Mar 2017 01:18:00 +0000 https://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=36542#comment-35583 I can’t even believe that you are comparing Embryos to Sperm or EGGS…. And saying that the Church is pointing to discarding them over donation… I would think maybe you should look at the “Thou shall not kill” since it is a union between an egg and sperm from a couple, and not just sperm or just eggs. I really think that the whole idea behind getting just sperm or just eggs is so that when a child is born to a couple there will be no hard feelings between the couple because the resulting child came from only one of them… Embryos on the other hand are created beings to start with. SO if a couple elects to adopt embryos they are getting children not just sperm or just an egg. I have been married for 15 years this April and we are going the Embryo route as we make children together that have chromosome abnormalities and our last son was born with physical abnormalities as well. I would think that Heavenly father would want you to donate over destroy, as you would be blessing others who are earnestly seeking children they themselves cannot bring here. I know I am supposed to have more children but also know that I am not supposed to give them a body from my or my husbands DNA. I am not trying to be mean but I truly think that you totally misinterpreted the discarding thing… You would be throwing babies away in my honest opinion.

]]> By: Momofboys https://askgramps.org/lds-church-position-left-embryos-frozen-ivf/#comment-35553 Thu, 23 Feb 2017 19:56:00 +0000 https://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=36542#comment-35553 We’ve done a lot of research on embryo adoption lately because we are considering it. There is a news blog about an LDS family who had a baby via embryo adoption. They counseled with their stake president, who worked with LDS Family Services, and the consensus was that it was just an early version of adoption. When the couple wrote to the First Presidency about whether they would need to have the baby sealed to them, they were told the baby was born in the covenant.

]]> By: MormonMama https://askgramps.org/lds-church-position-left-embryos-frozen-ivf/#comment-35536 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:59:00 +0000 https://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=36542#comment-35536 I wonder if the Church would view donation of embryos as something similar to adoption. Adoption is not discouraged at all, so I’m wondering if donating rather than destroying embryos would be viewed in the same light?

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