JoAnn L. Davidson

JoAnn L. Davidson is program director for the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program, a division of Nightlight Christian Adoptions. The program promotes the adoption of frozen embryos as an alternative to donating them to scientific research.

In vitro fertilization is a fertility treatment in which a couple’s egg and sperm are fertilized outside the womb and implanted into the woman as an embryo. Because fertility treatments produce more embryos than can be safely implanted into a womb, unused embryos are frozen so that they may be stored and used in the future. As a result, the number of frozen embryos warehoused in fertility clinics has skyrocketed. Rather than discarding or donating them to destructive embryonic research, genetic parents should have the opportunity to place their frozen embryos up for adoption. Each human...