“By some estimates, there are currently as many as 1.5 million embryos frozen in the US.”
Thaddeus Daniel Pierce was born from an embryo created in 1994, when his adoptive father was still a toddler. The biological mother paid about a thousand dollars a year in storage fees for three decades before donating through a Christian embryo adoption agency. The embryo spent 11,148 days frozen at negative 196 degrees Celsius and came out fine. The real story here is not the record but the 1.5 million embryos sitting in freezers across America with no clear legal framework governing their fate.