Gab Kovacs urged parents to donate their «spare» embryos rather than «waste» them once the state´s legislative storage time-limit of five years had expired.
«Often they don´t give it a great deal of thought,» Kovacs said of the parents who opt to kill the human embryos. «I find it surprising that people who have been through the pain of infertility aren´t more sympathetic towards others.»
Statistics from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare indicated that there are 65,518 embryos in frozen storage across the country, a threefold increase over 1994.
Those considering donation often changed their minds after counseling, when told the children born from the process might try to contact them in future, the Sydney paper said.
