From President Bush we learned about some remarkable families who “answered the call to ensure that our society’s most vulnerable members are protected and defended.” It turns out that those vulnerable fellow citizens are frozen blastocysts, and the families are remarkable because they adopted unwanted pinpoint-sized blobs of frozen protoplasm

The outfit that helps arrange the adoptions of these really young foundlings is Nightlight Christian Adoptions, through their “Snowflakes Frozen Embryo Adoption Program.”

Maybe it’s just me, but I found the following items from the Snowflakes FAQ section rather incongruous:

Most importantly, at Nightlight we recognize the personhood of embryos; we treat them as precious pre-born children, not property to be transferred.

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If you are matched with a family from another area, the embryos will be transported to the clinic of your choosing. The embryos will be shipped via Federal Express in a dry shipper.

Um, if Nightlight REALLY recognized the personhood of the little tikes, wouldn’t they buy them plane tickets, or send them to their new families via taxi, instead of transporting them like property via Federal Express?

Anyway, courtesy of the Boston Herald, let’s meet a family who adopted eleven of these most vulnerable member of our society:

With noise from her 3-year-old daughter in the background, Kate Johnson of Reading, Pa., speaks of the children she and her husband will someday “recognize on the other side.'’

“We basically have 10 adoptive children that went on before us and we basically have one” here now, said Johnson, who with her husband, Steve, “adopted'’ an embryo through a Christian-based organization committed to bringing frozen embryos into the world.

So, they adopted eleven kids, but ten of them are now dead. Shouldn’t the authorities being looking into this?

It sounds like Tom DeLay would think so. Here’s part of a Washington Post piece:

DURING THE DEBATE in the House on Tuesday over the stem cell research bill that passed on a bipartisan vote, Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) leveled a remarkable accusation: Supporters of liberalizing President Bush’s restrictive approach to funding stem cell research, he said, were voting “to fund with taxpayer dollars the dismemberment of living, distinct human beings for the purposes of medical experimentation.”

If it’s wrong to dismember these pin-point sized humans (even though they don’t actually have appendages or organs), then it surely isn’t okay to send so many of them on missions to inhospitable wombs where they have less than a ten percent chance of survival. Please, won’t somebody think of the little, tiny, pre-born children?