A burning issue frozen in time: the controversies surrounding freezing gametes and embryosCould you imagine freezing your eggs or sperm and, a century after your death, you Are you still mothering or fathering children? How about creating embryos and then freezing them until you are ready to have children? In today's society, the freezing of gametes and embryos raises several highly controversial ethical and personal questions. Since the day scientists and doctors discovered the existence of infertility, they have tried to find cures or new methods to circumvent this problem. disability. Freezing gametes and embryos is proving to be the new remedy that people are turning to. Sometimes a couple's egg and sperm don't come together. The couple then turned to in vitro fertilization and created around ten embryos. Three of the ten embryos are reinserted into the woman's uterus in the hope that at least one of them will take. Now the question is: what happens to the 7 embryos that remain? This is when couples usually turn to the freezing method. Before the freezing method existed, doctors would simply create about 5 embryos and insert them all into the uterus, which usually resulted in multiple births. If none of the embryos were collected, the couple would spend about another $10,000 to start the process again. Once the freezing method came into play, the couples then froze the additional embryos for later use instead of starting the embryo-making process again. Freezing eggs, sperm, and embryos tends to cause huge controversy among people. There are two different sides to this question. There are people who think that freezing gametes or embryos is unnatural and unethical, while the other party does not share this opinion. The other camp considers the freezing method to be an important step in reproductive technology and should be used liberally. Currently, the freezing process is open to anyone who can afford it. People who oppose the freezing of gametes and embryos not only want limits placed on reproductive technologies in general, but they also want to get rid of the whole idea of ​​the freezing method. They feel that the freezing method is mainly used for a delaying purpose instead of its main purpose, which was to help infertile people at a lower cost. An example of the delay situation they are talking about is a 30 year old woman who is successful in her career, but has not found M..