what to do with frozen embryos

Question from Anonymous on 2/27/2008:  
Hi Judy- as a cradle catholic (previously pick and choose-- obviously) I have been struggling as to what to do with frozen embryos that have been created by my Husband and I. My husband is not willing to implant them as he does not want any more children. I struggle with what to do with them as I would like them to be raised in a catholic family and I do not see that the church will allow other good catholics to become pregnant by adopting my embryos. Is it morally acceptable for other catholic couples to adopt my embryos or is the only option for me to implant them? My IVF procedures have been confessed, am I going to be under grave sin until these children are given a chance at life? What is a reformed catholic to do?
Answer by Judie Brown on 2/28/2008: 
Dear Anonymous

The Catholic Church has not make a pronouncement on the question of adopting frozen embryonic children, but most theologians agree that adopting then is not immoral.

I refer you to the following outstanding articles:

Surtees article http://www.catholic.net/RCC/Periodicals/Homiletic/0809-96/1/1.html

Maurizio P. Faggioni, OFM, “The Question of Frozen Embryos” http://www.ewtn.com/library/PROLIFE/FROZEMBR.TXT

Moral theologian Faggioni, who is a Vatican expert, writes the following in his article:

If the mother of an embryo cannot be located or should she refuse the transfer, certain authors, among whom are some Catholics, have considered the possibility of transferring the embryos into another woman. This would be a case of "prenatal adoption" to be distinguished from surrogate motherhood and heterologous fertilization with a donor oocyte. In this case there would be no offense to matrimonial unity, nor to the equilibrium of familial relationships, because the embryo would have, from the genetic standpoint, the same relationship to both adoptive parents. The stronger and more profound bonding which would occur between a child adopted before birth and his adoptive parents ought to lessen the psychological difficulties which at times are seen in traditional adoptions. Moreover, such a solution would highlight the significance of adoption as an expression of the fecundity of marital love and as fruit of a generous openness to life which leads spouses to welcome into their family children whose parents have died or who have been abandoned (, nn. 14, 41; , n. 93), above all in those cases where it is a question of children abandoned because of disabilities or illnesses (, n. 63).