I'm in a weird position I didn't think would happen years ago, but here we are. My wife and I decided to try for kids back in 2016/17, and spent at least a year trying for kids naturally, but we never got lucky with it. We ended up having to do IVF, in which we got 3 viable embryos and 1 unstable one that couldn't be tested. We did 2 frozen embryo transfers, and both worked perfectly (3 year old boy and 1 year old girl now). Couldn't ask for anything more, we got our two kids and are very happy with them.
Well, we didn't intend to have more than 2 kids, but you can't exactly choose how many embryos will actually fertilize, grow for a week and not have significant genetic defects, nor can you choose whether or not the transfer is successful (the more you have, the better odds, some people get a dozen). So we still have the other 2 in the freezer at the fertility clinic, and didn't want to make a decision on what to do with them for some time. $50 a month is a cheap storage fee, and worth it just in case we change our minds.
Well, here comes the government overreach, going way beyond abortions and gunning for IVF, embryos, etc etc. You know it's going to happen, just a matter of time. I told my wife when I heard the Alito opinion leaked, that we need to make a decision on these 2 embryos ASAP before we get into a liability situation or end up paying to store them for eternity. Neither one of us could see donating them, because we don't want someone else to raise our kid. So it's either take the risk of keeping them and hope they don't apply Murder charges for donating them to science down the road, destroy them now to avoid the issue, or be forced to donate them to someone else if the State decides.
So we are likely going to make the decision to donate them to science and avoid the issue down the line, but man that feels super shitty to do. Fuck these dumbass Republicans and their bullshit agenda. This is not a situation that the state should be involved in.