The Sahlgrenska University Hospital has denied a couple to take home her frozen embryos to bury them in accordance with their religious beliefs. Kersti Lundin, laboratory manager in reproductive medicine at the hospital, has never before been this request but said that the law makes it impossible for the hospital to get the couple to meet them.
– We Support us on Tissue Act which says that a tissue establishment may disclose cells or tissue to another authorized tissue establishment, says Lundin echo.
According to our religion are each embryo a individual, even if they are so small that they are barely visible.
So wrote a couple who had three embryos frozen at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg. The couple’s exemption application to receive the fertilized eggs mercy that they themselves could bury them.
But Kersti Lundin, head of the biobank, decided that the hospital could not walk the couple’s religious beliefs ahead of us.
– We did not think we could do it, but we think the same for all patients. As long as we believe that what is in the tissue law is what we should follow it will be the same for all.
The exemption application is not clear what religion the couple belongs, but the organization Respect belonging to the Catholic Church in Sweden, says Secretary-General Benedicta Lindberg that the couple should have gotten his wish through.
– I think the most respectful and dignified against both the couple and the embryos had been getting bury them. They are entitled to the same respect as it is already born child and every person.
Not to cells and tissues from biobanks in Sweden can be abused is the regulation hard on use and disclosure. But in this case, think Benedicta Lindberg demand is small and that the risk of abuse can be avoided.
– You can go to the funeral, or seal the embryos in a way that makes it impossible to use for something else, or if you let people sign a declaration. I think it would be possible to solve.
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