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slash conferences. We think of in vitro fertilization as just stayed technology, standard technology. So many people make use of it, but one of the tragic

ethical byproducts of in vitro fertilization are human beings that are left sometimes to

perish and sometimes in a state of stasis frozen for years sometimes decades. So these snowflake babies, can they be adopted? Turns

out, yes and they have been for 25 years.

Welcome back to issues etc. I'm Todd Wilkin

joining us to talk about embryo adoption.

Marlene Stregis, she's the mother of the first frozen embryo adoptee. Her husband John has

detailed this story in a book, A Snowflake named Hannah Ethics Faith, and the

first adoption of a frozen embryo. Marlene welcome.

Thank you, Todd.

Tell us about your daughter, Hannah.

Well, Hannah is our only child here on Earth.

She's 25 years old now and she just graduated last August from Baylor University with her

Masters in Social Work and she's now a licensed social worker.

How did you come so many years ago, 25 years ago, to ask about embryo adoption?

My husband and I had been through infertility treatments and this was about 1996.

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