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from the left-the-freezer-door-open-again dept.
University Hospitals has notified about 700 fertility patients and their families that the frozen eggs and embryos they had stored at one of its hospitals may have been damaged over the weekend when the temperature rose in a storage tank.
The problem, in one of two large freezers preserving specimens at the UH Fertility Center housed at the Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood, was discovered on Sunday morning. It occurred some time after staff left the previous afternoon, according to Patti DePompei, president of UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital and MacDonald Women's Hospital.
The liquid nitrogen freezer held about 2,000 egg and embryo specimens, according to Dr. James Liu, chairman of the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UH Cleveland Medical Center. Some patients had more than one sample stored, and some of the samples were provided as long ago as the 1980's.
Also at Newsweek.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @12:48AM (2 children)
The difference is like that between a car accident and purposely running somebody down with a car.
Now, if it turns out that somebody purposely caused the freezer to fail, the pro-lifers will indeed be pissed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @01:17AM (1 child)
FTFY
A lot of the pro-lifers motivation is trying to control women's rights.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @01:47AM
You discount the real motivation because it is invalid in your worldview, but there must be a motivation, so you invent one that is valid in your worldview.
I'm sure you have a great explanation for all the women who are pro-life. It'll be something like an abusive relationship, am I right?
You might as well say: a lot of anti-rape motivation is trying to control men's rights. That makes just as much sense. We can just focus on the restriction, because surely nobody is getting harmed, hmmm?