Would You Give Birth to Your Sister?

With the increasing frequency of freezing embryos comes so many new and odd questions. According to Rand, 400,000 embryos have been frozen since the 1970's, 4.5% of which have no parents now due to circumstances such as divorce, death of the parents, etc. This poses several interesting questions in my mind: Could you feasibly give birth to your sibling as an implanted embryo years after the death of your parent? Could one parent give birth to twins at different times? The answers to these questions seem to be yes.

According to this story from NBC's Today Show, a family has given birth to a baby girl who was actually conceived 13 years ago. The truly amazing aspect of this story is that her triplet siblings are 13 years her senior.

There has been some question as to the length of time that embryos can be frozen. But Lana, the child in this story, is proof that embryos can last much longer than previously thought.


What are my readers' thoughts on this? What should happen to embryos once the parents are gone? Should they be transferred as part of an estate? What if no surviving relative can be found? Should they be destroyed or donated? Would you give birth to your sibling?