New Study Confirms Overwhelming Death Rate of IVF Human Embryos

New Study Confirms Overwhelming Death Rate of IVF Human Embryos: Researchers reviewed all the in vitro fertilization cycles conducted at Shady Grove between 2004 and 2008. In 14,324 IVF cycles, clinicians retrieved 192,991 eggs. Initially, 110,939 of the eggs were successfully fertilized. However, only 44,282 continued to develop into 'viable embryos.'

Usual IVF practice is to implant just one or two living embryos into the womb per IVF cycle, with the others being frozen. 'Using the most optimistic set of assumptions that all the frozen embryos will eventually be used,' the ASRM report says, 'this will result in 8,366 babies. Thus, only 7.5% of all the fertilized eggs will go on to become live-born children.'

In reality the frozen human embryos are more likely to be used in research or abandoned, rather than be allowed to continue growing in their mother's womb.