Posibles soluciones a los embriones humanos “sobrantes”: ¿la adopción prenatal y la congelación indefinida?

Abstract

This article describes the possible solutions are given for human supernumerary embryos frozen: the conditions necessary for adoption and indefinite freezing. I believe, on the one hand, that the adoption of viable human supernumerary embryos by couples who request or prenatal adoption is a tolerable solution to the problem, but not generalizable. Tolerable for isolated cases, but not generalizable, since it is very unlikely that widespread adoption originate. Therefore, prenatal adoption is not the complete and definitive solution to this problem, because this solution has other problems of an ethical nature. In fact, the fate of most of their embryos remain frozen, that is, their parents left unattended, they remain in the hands of artificial reproduction centers for producer and consumer of human beings as marketable biomedical material research. On the other, the indefinite freezing or cryopreservation of “surplus” human embryos whatever its destination, it is not ethically neutral. Indeed, the freezing of embryos is, in itself, ethically contrary to respect for human dignity, because it means stop or paralyze the natural biological process that has the right every living human being. Also freezing undermines own immanent teleology of development that presents the human embryo autonomously, a limitation on the right to develop and seek their own end. Definitely, prenatal adoption is a theoretical and rather utopian alternative to the problem of human embryos frozen. The act of freezing and embryo is an inherently unjust act because it involves the interruption of a process vital development of a human individual indefinitely, a process which has the right of every living human being, and is forced to remain in conditions unbecoming to any human being.