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It is time to support embryo adoption.

The Catholic Church provides unequivocal teaching that IVF presents an immoral use of human ingenuity in the arena of reproduction, that the embryos created by means of artificial reproductive technology are to be respected as persons from the first moment of their existence, and that any intervention not immediately beneficial to the development of the embryo, such as stem cell research, offends respect due and is morally illicit.1 The logic of this teaching compels, for the most part, but does not cover every case. The concern of this essay is not with that logic or the teaching of Donum vitae, but with the disposition of embryos that are no longer intended for implantation and about which, except for the prohibition against research on them, the teaching is silent. Just a little over a year to the day that President George W. Bush announced his decision regarding federal funding for stem cell research (August 9, 2001) comes news (August 20, 2002) of an administrative push to subsidize “The Development and Delivery of Public Awareness Campaigns on Embryo Adoption.”2 Stem cell research and embryo adoption may not be immediately recognizable as related concerns; however, they are related materially because the embryo is the source of stem cells for research and formally because of politics and the ethics of research on human subjects and reproductive technologies.