Good Monday morning, everyone. We open this new week on the podcast addressing one of the

many questions we have not addressed directly. Embryo adoption. There are several versions

of this question. I'll put them all on the table, Pastor John, for you. A listener named

Sveta writes in, hello, Pastor John, I have a follow up question to ABJ 1165. What do you

think about so called snowflake adoptions? And which of frozen Embryo left over from

another family's IVF process is implanted into a woman to give this child a chance at life.

Laura, a listener, wants to know if there's a moral difference between adopting the orphaned

born versus adopting the orphaned unborn. Likewise, Audrey asks, should Embryo adoption be

considered something the Christian's value as much as after birth adoptions? In fact,

several listeners am asked, in essence, are frozen Embryos as much orphans to concern the

church with as living breathing orphans. And this is a very real question for one couple, hello,

Pastor John. My name is Karin from Australia. I recently read some articles about considering

Embryo adoption to help those babies live their God-given life with a loving family. My husband and

I are considering this option. We lost our only child in 2019 and we feel ready to love a child

again. But my husband is sub-fertil. And the normal adoption process in Australia is long and

expensive. But my question is, how could I be sure that adopting an Embryo is what God intended

for us? We want a child, but does Embryo adoption allow us to play God and choose parenthood?

Maybe God made my husband sub-fertil for a reason. I guess I just want to make sure that this is

God's will and not our own will here. Also, another concerning fact about Embryo adoption

is that the clinic transfers all of the donor's embryos into the recipient. What if the donor has

three frozen embryos and we can only afford to grow one baby? Then it does not help the other

two frozen babies left as one will have to decide to keep them frozen or to destroy them.

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