Katrina snowflakes coming soon
Glen and Rebekah Markham, in their backyard. In the turmoil after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans police officer Glen Markham and his wife, Rebekah, were too busy surviving to think about whether their potential second child _ a frozen embryo stored at a fertility clinic _ had survived, too. But the rescue of more than 1,400 embryos from the flooded clinic two weeks after the storm gave the Markham family plan new life. The baby, scheduled for delivery by Caesarean section on Jan. 16, 2007, will be one of the first children to be born from the rescued embryos.
I read about this somewhere (I should have bookmarked it) – it seems that someone at the fertility clinic was able to get the Police to rescue a vat of embryos after the storm. So while hundreds if not thousands of poor people were stuck on overpasses and in the SuperDome for days, dying, they were rescuing frozen embryos.
(AP Photo/Judi Bottoni)
Tengrain: Because dear, those were white frozen embryos not poor, old black people. I am beyond appalled. And I haven’t even mentioned the matching shirts.