Embryo jewellery... a new fashion trend?
03/05/2017 Kidspot
A couple with children conceived through IVF who have 'remaining embryo's' left from the treatment have come up with a way to 'carry her babies wherever she goes'.
After "completing their family", Belinda and Shaun Stafford didn’t know what to do with their remaining embryos.
Despite 'disposing of them unimaginable', the Stafford's 'jumped at the chance' of turning their little babies into 'keepsake' jewellery.
Ms McGlade, a midwife of 10 years and the founder of the company who creates this jewellery, said families send them ‘embryo straws’ which the company expertly preserves and cremates, creating a type of ‘embryo ash’.
McGlade claims this jewellery is 'special': "the embryos often signify the end of a journey"; The jewellery provides 'a way to gently close the door'.
“What a better way to celebrate your most treasured gift, your child, than through jewellery?
This is not a celebration of a child, but a twisted, disturbing experiment on human life.
An embryo is not the end of a journey, but a start of a life. This jewellery is closing the door... not on a journey, but on a life.
A child IS a gift to be treasured, but this is turning a son or daughter into a commodity to be worn as a fashion trend.