What your comment rightly points out is that there is a prior problem which is causing the problem of having these “left-over” embryos to begin with. I agree there are severe moral problems with fertility procedures that produce excess embryos that the parents have no intention of raising as children. I also agree that prospective parents should be more open to adoption when the Lord closes the womb.

Incidentally, the Snowflakes Frozen Embryo Adoption Program provides adoptive services for frozen embryos. Many couples have chosen to adopt frozen embryos and are now raising happy, healthy children who might otherwise have remained frozen or been destroyed.

Personally, I am against medical intervention where fertility is concerned. First, I have significant problems with the idea that multiple embryos are fertilized in the hopes that one of them works. What happens to the rest? If we examine fertility clinics from the pro-life, anti-abortion point of view, then aren’t fertility clinics guilty of murder? Indirectly, aren’t those parents guilty of conspiring in the same murders? … I want to note here that I am deliberately examining this from an extreme pro-life point of view. I am deliberately asking the extreme questions there. I do not lay claim to that extreme point of view, but only mean it as “serious points to ponder”.

Second, adopt. As a Christian who has watched other Christians go through fertility issues, I am always baffled at why adoption is so far off the list. Yes, it is complicated, but is it really that much more expensive than the medical intervention for fertility issues? It would almost seem to be a “message from God”, and yet people ignore it with a passion that only seems explainable by Darwinian notions of passing on genetics.

But back around to the point. If there were no fertility clinics, this would not be as big of an issue. There would be no spare embryos waiting to die.

As for the comparison the author makes, I think that is apples to oranges. The embryos are being created out of (what I will harshly state as) a selfish desire for the parents to have a child of their own loins. If they were not creating the market for that business, there would be no spare embryos sitting in freezers. The children in the hypothetical scenario are not always so deliberately created, nor are they created through a market demand for such a service to exist.