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! - Q. Question. We did IVF treatments to have a family and B”H we now have 4 healthy children. We still have a few frozen embryos left but due to our age and extreme high costs of each procedure we won’t be using them anymore.
The fertility clinic charges us a yearly premium for storing these embryos, can we ask them to dispose of them?
Rabbi Berkovits’s Shlit’a opinion is that one may tell them to dispose of the embryos. Care should be taken to clarify that the embryos may not be used for study or other beneficiaries.
Rabbi Dovid Bartfeld.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu, Horav Kalman Ochs and Horav Dovid Bartfeld Shlit’a
Answered by: Hagaon Rav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a
Published: August 1, 2025