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1.6 million fertilized embryos, leftover from couples undergoing IVF, currently sit frozen in facilities. “Spares” tells the personal story of four couples that chose to put their fertilized embryos up for adoption, taking viewers on a riveting journey through ethical, scientific, and legal landscapes of this new and bizarre technology.
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00:12All the hard times that we had just to get pregnant knowing that we had extra
00:16embryos was not something that I ever thought would ever possibly happen.
00:20These doctors and the people that decide to pursue it have to take it so
00:23seriously and I think sometimes they just create and create and create these
00:26embryos without any thought of what's going to happen to the rest of them that
00:29don't get used.
00:3010,382, 10,383, 10,384, 10,385.
00:39I think at that moment it was a new spark of light and a new spark of hope that we
00:44could
00:44carry a baby.
00:46And then it was around that time when people started mentioning snowflake adoption.
00:50They're like, can we hear the snowflake adoption?
00:51No.
00:52I don't know.
00:52What are you talking about?
00:53Yeah.
00:53These are babies and they're afforded the same freedoms and liberties that we would afford
01:00other unborn babies.
01:04400,526, 400,527, 400,528.
01:11Every embryo mattered to me and I still feel like I'm the father of those embryos.
01:14I still feel like I'm responsible for those and it's my job to care for those and make
01:19the best decisions I can.
01:20To even have this idea about eradicating a type of person because you don't view them
01:26as enough.
01:28970,897, 970,898, 970,899, 970,900.
01:38It's just a magical feeling getting to know that someone who was frozen for 10 years is
01:44now here.
01:45The more I wanted to be a part of this, of this new frontier of saving these little lives
01:49and these frozen orphanages just waiting for a chance.
01:521,686,239, 1,686,240, 1,686,241, 1,686,250.
02:10And the last document kind of shocked us.
02:13There's ahait of this patient, waiter, a Dihon, a SGA-L,190, 1,786,170,260.
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