Ask a Bible college Student

[LadyForCamus]

Unfortunately, as Faith No More mentioned earlier, part of IFV is creating more embryos than you need in order to get a small handful of potentially viable ones.  But, the embryos that get discarded are the ones that were likely never viable in the first place.  And if they were never conceived in the first place, they would just be eggs released...never even given a chance to become anyone.  

I mean, they could just do one at a time and try with that one. And if it doesn't work, create another and try with that one... and so on and so forth. It may not be as quick/efficient, but it's giving more respect to the new lives they create that way.

Well...that is KIND of what they do. The process of harvesting the eggs takes months and months, involving almost daily doctor's appointments, hormone replacements, and daily shots in order to stimulate the ovaries to produce a large enough number of eggs for potential conception. (My girlfriend got 16 eggs out of her first round, and those 16 eggs only yielded 5 viable embryos for transfer in the end.

And then they do it at a clip of like, 1-2 embryos per IVF transfer. So, my friend did 2, 2, and then 1, for a total of all five embryos over the course of three transfers. The nice thing is, the embryos are frozen so she could choose to do a transfer whenever she had the time. She is a school teacher and it was hard to get the time off of work for so many doc appts, so she did her transfers over the summer. And of course, just like any other pregnancy, you have to wait 3-4 weeks after each transfer to see if the embryo implanted, and if it didn't, you have to wait to get your period before moving on to the next one.

But as I said, the embryos are frozen and can be used at a woman's discretion, so I don't think as many embryos are typically getting "wasted" or "discarded" as you think. And a woman can always choose to donate her embryos if she decides she doesn't want to try anymore. My girlfriend considered using donor eggs after 3 failed IVF's. So, maybe it's not as wasteful of a process as you had thought?

P.s. I am not a fertility doctor. I am only relaying the experience of my friend. If I said anything factually or scientifically incorrect, please, someone with more knowledge on the subject, go ahead and correct me! [emoji39]