Is embryol extraction possible?!

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Most likely, no. The frozen embryos people talk about are fertilized 'in vitro' --- Latin for 'in glass' -- thus the term 'test-tube babies'. They are frozen at a very, very early stage of development, a few dozen cells usually. Often by the time someone finds out they are pregnant and pursues an abortion the fetus is already in the uterus and things have become far more complex embryologically speaking. At six weeks, we expect to see a heartbeat, there is already differentiation into different kinds of tissue and the energy requirements of the fetus are such that there has to be blood supply to it. Removing the fetus once it is implanted would require being able to freeze it in place, and then hope that in the freezing process there is no significant damage to the fetus. There are many processes going on during the early weeks of development and even very subtle changes in timing can have disastrous results on the fetus. Thalidomide, for example, interrupted blood supply to growing limbs, resulting in malformed limbs. If you mess with the timing of the heart development, you can end up with significant cardiac defects.

In short, embryogenesis is very, very complex with a lot of moving parts, and any attempt to remove the fetus at this stage is likely to result in a child with a lot of problems should you unfreeze it and attempt to restart it later. I don't believe that this is a viable alternative to abortion, as much as I wish there was a viable alternative to abortion.

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I don't see how warehousing them could help.