The number of human beings living in freezers in the United States now outnumbers the population of Dallas, Texas.
“Estimates place the number of frozen embryos at greater than 1.5 million,” reported the March 2022 edition of Fertility and Sterility, a journal published by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
According to the latest Census Bureau estimate, Dallas had a population of 1,302,868 in 2023.
How did all these human beings—conceived in the United States of America—end up locked in freezers?
The ASRM has published a booklet explaining in vitro fertilization and why it results in human beings being frozen.
“IVF is a method of assisted reproduction in which a man’s sperm and a woman’s eggs are combined outside of the body in a laboratory dish,” says the ASRM booklet.
“One or more fertilized eggs (embryos) may be transferred into the women’s…
