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The New Frontier Of Embryo 'Adoption'

The popularity of in vitro fertilization has resulted in hundreds of thousands of unused human embryos frozen in storage. A handful of Christian adoption agencies want new families to "adopt" the embryos. NPR's Arun Rath hears from Daniela Hernandez, who wrote about this practice for Fusion.

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