My first reaction to this was, this is chilling:

Children born after a frozen, thawed embryo has been replaced in the womb have higher birth weight than those born where fresh embryos were used, Danish scientists reported to the 24th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.

[Link: Science Centric | News | Children born from frozen embryos weigh more and do better than those born after fresh transfer]

I am accused around home of telling too many puns, and too gleefully. I admit I noticed there’s one here, but I assure you that was not my original thought about it.

On one level, of course I’m glad the babies survived being frozen, and were not damaged by it. I would not have wanted them to come out of it any other way. I just recoil at the thought of treating a human being that way in the first place.

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