Abstract

As artificial reproduction technology usage in the United States increased, the remaining frozen embryos have accumulated more than five hundred thousand, and how to deal with these embryos become a very important issue. Catholic Church from the beginning opposed to artificial reproductive technology, that kind of frozen embryos is not the case and that justice can not be properly addressed. There are two Catholic ethicists to send their views: the primary school proposed to mention saving ultra-low temperature freezing embryos is kind of unusual way, so morally can be terminated using, so the embryo naturally dignified death; faction scholars believe to embryonic be adopted is the only way to save the embryos. This thesis is to assess the views of these two scholars, because many couples do not want their embryos to be adopted, and the choice for surplus embryos die a natural death, it is suggested to become the first scholars of the proposed Church's official position. Increased use IVF and related techniques has led to an accumulation of over 500,000 frozen surplus embryos in US alone. What to do with them has become an important question. The Catholic Church has condemned IVF from the beginning and considers the problem of frozen embryos as a situation of injustice which in fact cannot be resolved. There are two streams of thought among the Catholic scholars: one proposes that the embryos can be allowed to die with dignity because cryopreservation is an extraordinary means, which can be morally with drawn and the other proposes embryo adoption as only means to rescue the frozen embryos. This paper evaluates these two positions and suggests the first position is more preferable as Catholic position, since many couples prefer to allow the embryos to die than to donate them for adoption