Hi guys! Today's lesson is about Savior Siblings and Snowflake Adoption. Let's get started!
What is a Savior Sibling? A Savior Sibling is a child born for the sole purpose of donating organs for living siblings with a fatal disease. For example, if a child has a non-functional liver, the parents can use IVF to create another child. The doctors can then remove the second child's liver, and donate it to the first child, saving his or her life.
What is Snowflake Adoption is when an organization adopts any leftover embryos from IVF and raise them. In my previous post about IVF, I mentioned that any leftover embryos are preserved in liquid nitrogen. Well, if the embryos are left too long, they can die. To prevent this from happening, some people adopt the embryos, and raise them as their own children.
Hope this helped!
Lydia
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