Given the heated discussion we’ve been having about whether pro-life people (or people in general) should oppose in vitro fertilization, I was intrigued by a note I got from a pro-life doctor/activist in England.
Here’s his analysis of the data put out by England’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, a government agency, about what happened to embryos created during this process in 2005:
214,177 embryos were ‘used’ (i.e. successfully created).
68,083 of those were transferred to women:

“What happened to the other two thirds? The HFEA states that 43,892 were frozen and stored, 230 were donated to other women, 4,338 were donated for research, but 97,634 were euphemistically ‘discarded’.
So there we have it. Transferred, 31.8%; frozen, 20.5%, donated, 0.1%; for research, 2.0% and discarded, 45.6%. The latter two categories were destined for immediate and deliberate destruction – a total of 101,972 human embryos, or almost half of those created by IVF, destroyed in just one year.”

Again, those who don’t believe that life begins at conception will not be bothered by this. But those who do, why do you not consider this a holocaust as well?