...A countless number of human embryos created using in vitro fertilization and frozen in fertility clinic freezers across the United States have become the subject of ethical, political, and practical debate focused on one question: What should happen with them? In 1997, a group of white pro-life...

... century, conservative Christian strategists were not its originators. This interlude traces the discursive history of embryo adoption through matter-of-fact debate among legal scholars, promotion by prominent in vitro fertilization clinicians, and opposition by antiabortion activists abroad. Bethany...